Citizen

You know God before you intervened in my life so gracefully, I have been proud of so many things. Of language, people, city, state and country. Do you know I used to tell my first name as Tamizhan and last name as Indian? Do you know that I still brag that I was state first in Tamizh in my high school? Well God, if you were really looking for the Truth rather than brushing off things in an impetuous manner, this would have been more apparent. Of course, the reference period you had so chosen without much deliberation wouldn't have demonstrated this aspect of me. You knew this God, so you must have extended that period only to arrive at the same conclusions. I understand you didn't have much to go by too, so I blame myself for leading an inconspicuous life! 

Do you know God about all those childish arguments we all used to have to prove who's language or who's town is superior? Just like everyone else,  as I grew up, I understood the futility in all these arguments. There's no Truth in them and we all know how they are going to end. You would say I lack the fighting spirit but the Truth is there couldn't be an Absolute winner. If I look back, my obsession over this Absolute concept would turn out to be my greatest undoing, while many in the world is content living in relative terms only pushing for Perfectionism as the need arises. As frustrating as it may be, this seeking is what that helped me to get here and I am pretty satisfied with the results so far, baring few aspects. However, I commend you for still retaining these identities in you and I am pretty sure you would go all out fighting for them even today!

The calamity you had contrived so marvelously, detonated a devastating implosion in the mind that couldn't reconcile this newer reality with all these identities that once existed so peacefully side by side. You know God, you eagerly anticipated all the people that I could possibly identify with to judge and castigate me but you didn't know that I judged them based on how they judged me. I saw the world through them after they have seen it through me! So you see my friends are friends by choice and not by coercion. You know God, I am fully aware of your intentions to exploit my social aloofness and awkwardness; something that had given you and continues to give you plethora of opportunities to justify and to do what you find so amusing. With the powers you greedily possessed over me through your intrusions in the name of monitoring, all you ended up doing was to go after those vengeful feel good impulses just like anyone else, the very things I had consciously avoided throughout my life. You have taken getting even to the next generation. I confess your territorial instincts are far stronger than mine!

In the aftermath of the calamity, I took each one of these identities, looked at them real hard and found that there is no Truth in them either. I understood the purpose of their existence but they caused too much pain and realized that they couldn't be in my system any longer. Besides they are innately provincial and thus parochial in their perspective. And they are just some nerve cells that would soon be dead and gone as long as I don't feed their appetites. Thus I started to shred them one at a time bidding them all a warm and tearful farewell. I enjoyed them as long as they lasted! The occasional emotional outbursts you witnessed during this period that you showcased so callously as a testament of how evil I am, were actually the symptoms of the process that expunged these from my system. I am completely purged and now belong to Earth. So that's how I became the citizen of Earth! You see God, everyone in this world has to identify with me now, undeniably looking for the good and turning away from the evil, just like how they would look at themselves!