Ever had a existential moment when you were still a kid?
I had one when I was pretty young, I was watching Terminator 2 by with my mum and I was already crying my eyes out because Arnie was going down into the deep fryer but there's that moment when you see from his point of view his CPU shutting down. WOWZERS!!! To me as a kid that was something else, I mean I had some idea of people going on and on about humans having a soul and going somewhere when they died but what about machines, and wasn't the Terminator some form of alive? Where did he go when he died? I think I asked my mum about it and just said he shut off into nothingness. Damn!!! This broke my little brain apart, just nothingness, I couldn't even fathom it!!! My mum was always going on about how death was like a big sleep and we all love sleep and how she couldn't wait, but that concept of eventual nothingness haunted a lot as a little kid. I remember later watching the movie Willow and seeing a skull and being like 'That's gonna be me someday!!!'. What will I think and feel and know etc etc etc as just a skull? Well I wouldn't know anything. I mean these days I don't care, the concept of nothingness sounds awesome, but poor little Allelse, he didn't like it one bit. And it got him thinking about his own existence and how it would all end.