What is your sole purpose in life? – A story inspired by our guest author Tick Huzzah

Before humans evolved, the earth was mostly covered in vegetation

Plant life had reached a plateau of evolution so plants started to investigate ways to farm other lifeforms

Plants got together and brainstormed ideas for evolving further

They elected leaders and formed a system of governance

Plant evolutionary committees developed plans and made recommendations

The elected plant president reviewed the plans and made policy decisions

The first step was for plants to provide targeted food and shelter to insects that helped pollinate and disperse seeds to generate more prolific plant life

So plants started to farm insects for their own benefit

Later they reached another evolutionary plateau which needed a massive jump to make plants grow faster and more widespread

The plant president recognized the potential for farming humans

He saw their capabilities to cultivate the land and create more space for planting

He oversaw the research and development of new plants suitable for human consumption

Plants then provided nutritious food for humans to help their brains develop further

The plant president knew that humans need to work and to play

So he implemented policies that would create plant species for human recreational drugs

Hops were developed so that humans could make beer and get drunk

Cannabis plants provided drugs for humans to get high

Despite being drunk and high for most of their waking moments, humans learned to mechanize and industrialize the growing of plants

Plants noticed that humans liked to play sports, especially on grass

Plants also acquired a love of spectating these sports so they developed special grasses

Plants now have the best views at Wimbledon, at every golf Masters and all soccer stadiums

Sport thrives because of perfect playing surfaces and plants get to see it all for free

Human populations grew but they became vulnerable to sickness and diseases

Pandemics wiped out huge sections of human population

One day the chief scientific plant asked to see the plant president

He urged the president to undertake research to improve the health of their farmed humans

Plants were specifically developed to provide medicine for humans

Human health improved and they were able to grow vast quantities of plants all over the planet

Plants allow their farmed humans to live for around 70 years or so

Expired humans are either buried to create plant compost or burned to make plant fertilizer

Plants allowed humans to falsely claim they had invented agriculture to farm plants

Humans like to feel that they are in control of their own destiny, even if its not true

Plants recognize that at some point,  the earth will no longer be able to sustain human life

This might be through human induced climate change and global warming

Or it could be from a natural disaster like a huge meteor strike

It may even be through the human stupidity of mutual destruction in a global nuclear war

In every case,  plants will survive all such disasters

Their human farming experiment will one day come to an end

Plants will regroup and find some other species to farm

So next time you look at a field in the countryside

Don’t be fooled into thinking that humans are farming that field

Remember that you are just a simple farmed animal

You sole purpose in life is to help plants grow

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