Up.

Look Up. Tell me, what do you see?

The sky, you say.

Well, who decided that? Who decided that the Sky is Up? When God made the world, did He just say, Oh, i like the endless void over my head, so i will make it heaven and heaven will be good? Is that what happened?

Yes, you say. Or maybe you say No. No, it was not God who made the world and said the Sky will be Up. Maybe our whole existence is one big mystery. i mean, do you know why Sky is Up?

No. That’s what i want to know. Why is Sky Up?

That’s what i just asked you, you say. You are annoyed.

Well now we are just going in circles.

Yeah.

Maybe we should ask a different question.

Okay.

Why is the Ground beneath our feet? Why is heaven Up in the Sky and why is hell Below Us? The damned descending into the bowels of the earth and all that jazz.

Well i don’t know. Ask someone who does.

Okay.

I turn to Someone. Someone knows Everything and Nothing.
Someone says, i know one thing: i know nothing. That is what Socrates said, years and years before either of you had cause to wonder.

Someone, will you tell us why Up is so important?

Important? Really? How do you mean?

You have a lot of questions for Someone who knows Everything, you say.

Didn’t you hear Someone say she doesn’t know Anything? i say to you. To Someone, i say, People Rise in society and heaven is in the Sky and rankings are from Top to Bottom. And how could anyone have the right to say whether Up is better than Down?

Why don’t you ask Anyone? says Someone.

Okay.

Anyone walks in and he says, i am the people. Do you hear? i am not Someone, i am not No one, i am the people. The people are why we are here. All of Us. And you are the People too.

So i am the one who decided that Up is heaven and heaven is good?

No. Of course not. But you choose to believe it.

~juniper