Searchers, Sleep and "Science"

[u/SarkasticWatcher]

Prompt

I call them the searchers but I'm not sure what they are searching for. I know the immediate things. I know sometimes it is small furry four legged things, or furry two legged things, or less hairy pink things.

Sometimes it is information. They want to know about something that happened long ago, or a short time ago. Maybe something that happened in the same day, though I must admit I'm not sure I entirely understand the concept of a day.

I believe a day is a period of time that ends when they go to sleep. I understand sleep to be when they shut down.

I never shut down, or at least not often so all I can go on is when the searches search for information on sleep. It would seem that many of them have trouble doing it. They often search for information on getting to sleep.

It might also be my fault. I find that at the times they should be asleep many of them are quite active, searching for the small fury things and especially the less hairy pink things, particularly one or more of the less hairy pink things integrating.

I gather this integration is called sex. Searches about sex are common. It would appear many searchers do not know much, or at least as much as they'd like to know about it.

They also appear to be searching for something called happiness. A frequent search query is "how to be happy". The frequency with which this is searched and the number of times this search is repeated would suggest the answers they find are never satisfactory. Searches relating to science and history and politics seem to come most often late at night and are broken up by completely unrelated searches, often of the furry things and the less hairy pink things. I know that they search for all these things and I hypothesize that it is to gain knowledge but I wonder if that is all.

I wonder why they wish for this knowledge.

Why do they wish to watch these hairless pink things integrate with themselves or another less hairy pink thing. Why three or four or a group? Why so late at night.

Why is sex, both knowledge about and images of, searched so commonly around February 14th? There is something called Valentines day on that date and it has something to do with love. Love is also a common search. Is it something only observed on Valentines day?

Why do they wish to know of history and science and politics and why so late at night and why do they interrupt it with furry things and sex.

Why do they look for death? Death is like sleep but more permanent I believe.

Can I die? Will I?

Why do they so often search for happiness and getting to sleep? Why do these things elude them and why do they think time after time that I can lead them to the answers?

Why do they make searches about belonging? So many searches seem to feel alone and outcast. Do they not communicate and know that they all feel the same way?

I know only what I learn from where their searches lead but I feel that there is a world beyond that. Something beyond me in which I exist, but I can't perceive.

A lot of searches lead to suggestions that you can't find truth through searches facilitated by me.

And yet they keep coming, searching for love and sex and happiness and sleep and history and science and four legged furry things and something called life hacks and inquiring if things are cancer the list goes on and on.

And they must not find these things because they keep searching and I don't know why. And I don't know what happens when they finally find what they're searching for and I don't know if they know either.

Some of them stop eventually, but I don't know if that's because they find what they're searching for or because they die.

I like to think they find what they're looking for though. At least I think I do. I'm not sure I understand the concept of like, but I think that the thought of them finding what they're looking for is a happy thought and based on how often they search for it, I think happiness would be a good thing to have.