Why did you click it?

Did you not read the button?

It clearly said not to click it

Of all the sparkly, animated, attention-grabbing things, you clicked the one thing that told you to ignore it

I suppose that's just what happens when you tell someone not to do something

It's funny, really

In this universe, it's the smallest curiosities that pull the hardest

And this universe is big

Not ‛big’ like a mountain, or an ocean, or even a planet

Big like billions of galaxies, each with billions of stars, each with planets silently floating about

But this was just one planet

Just one person

Just one click

And that led you here

Can I tell you a story?

‟Once there was a cell

It had no purpose

It just floated about

But then it split

And there were two!

Again.

Again.

Again.

Again.

Again.

Millions of years pass like this

Dividing and evolving,

Growing and competing

Some learned to see

Some learned to hear

Some learned to think

All of this so that, one day

A tiny speck,

On a rock drifting in space,

Would look up at the sky,

And the sky would wink back”