[ WP ] You are scrolling through r/WritingPrompts , when this very prompt catches your attention . Intrigued by it 's meta nature , you debate with yourself whether or not you 'll write about it .

Haha, five upvotes? Who needs karma, anyway? It's stupid to care about something that is likely stored in a few microscopic transistors in a server somewhere. Then again, it's stupid to care about little strips of mushed leaves with pictures of former leaders of our inhabited landmasses etched into them, yet our entire world revolves around it. Or, wait, only the humans. Hey, look, another one. Really, does much of modern existence even matter? Everyday, our success is n't defined by how well we're surviving, it's about how many little IOU's we obtained and gave away that day. One upvote. Another. Or maybe, maybe we've transcended to a level high enough that we do n't need to care about basic survival. Maybe that just means we were already successful, and now we're basking in the sweet reward of dominance. We've reached a level one step closer to God. Wow, that number is going up fast. But, are we losing ourselves so much to this reward, that we forgot to keep tabs on the true enemy, the one that's slowly killing us in the background? Have we forgotten to protect ourselves... from ourselves? Look, it's at 25. We continue to laze around in our `` safe, successful world'', that we do n't notice that nature is once again creeping up behind us, slowly counting down to doomsday, and if we do n't do something about our actions soon, we'll all suffer the consequences. We'll all... die. If we continue to put our trust in fancy pieces of paper, or the people who claim to protect us, or the little pointy arrows the internet 
 
 WOAH IT JUST HIT 50 MAKE A STORY QUICK QUICK 
 
 EDIT: chRIST 1000 IS A VERY LARGE NUMBER
