The purpose of life

I delight in the certainty I have in the Pool of Essence. The Pool of Essence doesn't demand something shabby, like faith, from me. I know the Pool exists, and it illuminates my soul.

The Pool has dictated the order of society, this is innate to our beings. Each community is led by a marquise rabbit, who benevolently and impartially resolves our disputes, few though they be. We love our marquise, and she directs us in an orderly fashion. Because of our commonality, everyone in the world has two eyes, two ears, a nose, a mouth, four paws, we are all connected, and we respect each other. When one of us finds a pleasant field full of beautiful flowers, she tells the community, and we all delight in nibbling on the petals.

As individuals, we will certainly pass on; our Essence will leave our bodies and return to the Pool. Communities live longer, but a drought or a weasel can bring an end even to the most prestigious cultures. Even so, life continues, for life is the purpose of the cosmos.

Billions of years ago, the Pool of Essence gathered space dust with gravity, and formed some of it into the sun, some of it into asteroids, and some of it into planets, such as our own. We live on a tiny space rock that is made from the same elements as the sun and the planets and the comets and the asteroids. The only difference is that the earth has been guided by the Pool of Essence to bring forth life.

Chemicals of increasing complexity were formed, they gathered together, and became the components of cells. The cells divided and mutated and formed together into communities that we call multicellular animals. Over billions of years of evolution, the Pool of Essence brought forth more and more variety in life, bugs and reptiles and birds and mammals. Fifty million years ago, rabbits emerged, and we have ruled the world with care and civility since then.

The Pool of Essence has given us not just life and order, but purpose. We are to show compassion, develop society, and romp. Romping is demanded of us by the Pool of Essence, and we joyfully return to it its due. As we romp, we transcend our immediate selves and commune with the cosmic Essence that unites all life. Romp! Romp, my sisters, I implore you! Romp!