For Future Humans Or Non-Humans

Dear Future humans or non-humans,

I am Daphne. I write this at age 32. In a city in the Netherlands. We are now living through a collapse that moves slowly, non-linear, so that many don't see it yet, or refuse to see it.

I am not writing for my children. I chose not to have them. Not many women in my ancestral line have had that choice. I ended the loop. But I do write for you, whoever you are, human or non-human, descendant by blood or by the long change of existence. Maybe you are far in the future, or maybe only a few years away, picking through what remains. Maybe you are an ape again, surviving, with little memory of what came before. Maybe you are something beyond human. Whoever you are, welcome.

Why I am creating a humanity archive? Because it is human to want to leave something behind- a trace, a voice, a map. I do not know if this will survive, or if anyone will ever read it. Perhaps it will get lost. But if you do find it, may it be useful, or at least honest.

This is a record of grief and truth. It is not written by a professional, not by someone with diplomas or positions of power. I am a "life specialist." Everything here comes from life experience, from mistakes, from seeing through illusions, from deconstructing stories until only raw process is left. It is written through my eyes and body..one perspective among billions. Don't take it as absolute truth. Take it as nourishment: absorb, digest, discard what does not serve.

About our time: we are apes, clever but confused, trapped in systems of our own making. We invented governments, schools, money, myths of love, myths of progress, endless distractions. We built AI, and now live with it's arrival, though we hardly understand it. Nations fight, power hardens, propaganda spreads, but most people keep going as if nothing is wrong. Rome fell once; now we live in Rome 2.0, in a modern suit.

What I ask you to carry forward is not perfection but understanding. Don't hate yourself if you repeat the same mistakes we did. It is human nature. The problem is the ape-mind itself. It overshoots, expands until it collapses, then begins again. Don't waste time on guilt. See the pattern, name it, and maybe - if you can - find peace with it.

Some call that peace the Middle Way. Maybe you'll find your own version. Maybe you'll live unconsciously, like an ape. Both are natural But if you remember one thing, let it be this: you are not broken for repeating loops. Life itself works by overshoot and collapse.

I do not know what comes after this. Maybe nothing. Maybe everything. But here is my testimony, my letter across time: this is what it was like to be human in the early twenty-first century, in the Anthropocene.

-Daphne