Either Break Me Down or Wake Me Up

People self-punish themselves and I am no different. I almost feel like I should be punished for what I have done wrong in my life. I know that it is very unhealthy and that I should not. Everything I learn and know I seem to do the opposite of. I believe there is a psychology theory based around that somewhere that I've studied before. But, I was thinking about mankind and our fragile existence and how one day our planet will be nothing more than a dirt pile with no atmosphere or magnetic poles. The evidence of this is our sister planet Mars. NASA recently discovered a fossil on Mars and no one wants to hear that. Religion doesn't want to hear it because that challenges people's beliefs and NASA doesn't want to hear it because it means that life was created much sooner than they believed. Everyone's beliefs are being challenged and somewhere in the middle is the truth. Are we remnants of Mars or were the inhabitants of the former Mars now angels? Maybe truth lies in both? I started thinking of it not on a spiritual level because although I do believe in a Higher Power I do believe that however He did it is not up for us to judge. Actually, these thoughts came on a personal level for all of humanity. For so long we have been saying "Shalom!" and "Peace!" and what ever that no one remembers the meaning of it. People believe that Peace means a temporary treaty but it means a permanent treaty. In fact, I don't believe true Shalom even has "treaties" but instead has True Peace. Most people don't look at the big picture and I mean the very big picture. So big, that it includes the entire universe. In fact, think about the vast universe for a moment and take earth into consideration. Feel small yet? Maybe alone or pathetic? You should because we are alone when it comes to other life forms. Our planet is fragile and awaiting destruction like Mars. What caused all life on Mars to go extinct is unknown and probably will never be known. Isn't it possible that they had advanced life like us? Let's pretend they did in case they didn't. Picture foreign cities and governments, not like our own. Their culture is not like any on earth and who knows what crazy ideas and philosophies they had about existence. They surely wrote their ideas down, their discoveries, families, ideas, theories, culture, music, happiness, life. All of it was recorded, stored, sent, and known. Maybe they only made it to the middle ages of their time or perhaps only were hunter gatherers. Then again maybe they were in advanced cities and just never developed satellites. Their culture may not have found a need to explore space, unlike our own species. What ever the case, they were intelligent and lived lives like we do. Then suddenly, catastrophe destroyed their planet. All life lost and all their culture and records went into vain never to be known again. The only hope of their knowledge surviving is us, their sister planet. Then again maybe the tales of the Sumerians were remnants of stories passed on from them. However, I don't believe this but all possibilities should be considered because whether you like it or not fossils are on Mars. It's time to embrace the truth instead of ignore it and it's time to come together as a species. If we don't, we may just be another Mars. Everything you're doing right now will be unknown to anyone ever. This article will have been nothing but electrical signals in the world wide web. Those arguments you lost friendships over, lost. If you believe in a Higher Power as I do then you begin to understand even further just how pointless it all was. If the world were to end tomorrow for any reason at all (sun exploded for no apparent reason, asteroid hit us, God returned or forsake us, reality caved in on itself, we crashed into another dimension, what ever you want to fill in here) then would you be satisfied with the legacy you left behind on the fabrics of memory? Or will you just be a fossil on Mars to become ignored and unwanted? I would prefer that I could do good in the world if anything else. If I am to be punished by God, forsaken, or anything then I don't want to go down in vain. Perhaps my words will go on in the memories of people. If not, then I hope to never be aware of it. We have yet to know our destiny but I'm sure we all agree on our fate.