Alien story

"Live wandering so you don't die wondering."

I distinctly heard a voice whispering that sentence to me a few days ago (fortunately, I didn't see any burning bushes for I would have panicked!).

Now I don't mean "wandering" in the Bohemian sense, but in the sense of letting one's thoughts freely go where they want to go.

Of course, society will have none of this. "No wandering please!" is the sagesse du jour. You MUST go to the office every weekday, then go back home and sit obediently on the couch for some entertainment. Then back to the office you go the following day. And so on and so forth until retirement.

This is precisely the scene that an extra-terrestrial would see, from his ship floating high above the city. He would see millions of people waking up every day, get dressed, go to the office, do something, then go back home.

The alien would wonder: "All these humans go from point A (home) to point B (office) five days a week. Yet the Earth is so big. Don't they ever get the urge to wander a little? Don't they want to explore this beautiful blue planet? They do have cars, yet they drive every day from point A to point B, then back to point A. What's the point really?"

Baffled, the alien then picks up what looks strangely like a Telus RAZR phone and calls an alien colleague. They agree to go to the newly renovated cantina inside the spaceship to figure out the logic underlying the daily behavior of millions of humans.

(This alien story will continue shortly. Oh, in case you were wondering, the success secret is coming up!).