The End of the Apocalypse

A letter from an "immortal" spanning millions of years If you are overwhelmed by the uncertainty of the future right now, please listen to this story. I am the only human being on earth who has lived for more than a million years. I have walked side by side with mammoths, seen continents tear apart, buried entire tribes in plagues, and seen nuclear bombs bloom mushroom clouds in the night sky. Young people, you worry about AI replacing humans, fear the climate crisis, and lose sleep over mortgages and layoffs. But please look at us in the long history: No generation is truly destroyed by the unknown - the Stone Age worried about the extinguishment of the fire, the Middle Ages feared the end of the world, and the 20th century feared nuclear war... But each era has found its own way. I spent three days buried under Pompeii ash, held on to driftwood as the Titanic sank, and measured radiation outside the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. But what keeps me going for a million years is not "avoiding disaster", but the smell of the first breath of fresh air in the morning, the fragrance of the earth after the rain, and the warmth of the baby's first grasp on your fingers. The future is never known, but that's what's fascinating about it. You don't need to predict the storm, you just need to remember: the story of mankind has never been "predicting the future", but "creating the future with your own hands." You have inherited millions of years of survival wisdom—the genes of your ancestors who escaped the Ice Age flow in your veins, and the thinking patterns of your ancestors who defeated the Black Death run in your brain. ——A time traveler who is always on the road