In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other: “Do you believe in life after delivery?”

if there is life, then why has no one ever come back from there? Delivery is the end of life, and in the after-delivery there is nothing but darkness, silence and oblivion. It delivers us nowhere.”

The second baby replied, “Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.”

“Well, I don’t know,” said the second, “but certainly we will meet Mother and she will take care of us.”

“Nonsense” said the first. “There is no life after delivery. What kind of life would that be?”

The first replied, “Mother? You actually believe in Mother? That’s laughable. If Mother exists then where is she now?”

The second said, “I don’t know, but there might be more light than there is here. Maybe we will walk with our legs, and eat from our mouths. Maybe we will have other senses that we can’t understand now.”

The second said, “She is all around us. We are surrounded by Her. We are of Her. It is in Her that we live. Without Her this world would not and could not exist.”

The first replied, “That is absurd. Walking is impossible, and eating with our mouths? Ridiculous! The umbilical cord supplies nutrition and everything we need. Because the umbilical cord is so short, life after delivery is logically impossible.”

Said the first: “Well, I don’t see Her, so it is only logical that She doesn’t exist.”

To which the second replied, “Sometimes, when you’re in silence – and you focus, and really listen – you can perceive Her presence, and you can hear Her loving voice, calling down from above.”

The second baby insisted, “Well, I think there is something, and maybe it’s different than it is here, so we won’t need this physical cord anymore.”

Written by Hungarian writer, Utmutato a Leleknek.