A/N I disclaim The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and it's characters. I only claim Kyon's thoughts. The italicized and underlined words are words from Koizumi from episode 5. The texts just italicized are Kyon's thoughts.

The Meaning of Existence


The sun was up and shining brightly, even though it just rose up a couple of hours before. As Kyon walked up the steep hill to reach his school, he became satisfied with himself. He had woken up early to walk to school in a relaxed fashion so he could think straight. Looking at his surroundings triggered one of the many conversations he had with Koizumi about the meaning of existence.

"Do you know the anthropic principal? The universe exists because we observe and determine it is. For example, I observe and the universe is, or something along those lines. If humans beings who observed the universe hadn't evolved this far, then there wouldn't be any observation and the universe wouldn't have anyone to acknowledge it's existence. The universe is because the humans know it is," Koizumi in a professional yet question tone continued his speculation.

"Why was the universe created in such a way that human beings could survive in it? It could only take a slight change in the gravitation constant or particle mass ratio for the universe to not allow a planet like the Earth to exist."

"He talked about various things that day that I couldn't make sense of," I thought to myself. "He does have a point though. The green grass I am seeing now, how is it able to exists? How are we allowed to exists? If I think about it, this could be just a dream of someone who felt they needed to be entertained. For all I know, I could just be a character of some story and a storyteller is reading out loud, as what I know as my life, to an unknown audience."

"The same goes for us human beings. In our universe, Earth is a planet that allows us to live and thrive. Since Earth has the correct conditions that allows us to live, does that mean there are other planets out there that have the same environment with an atmosphere, weather, water, and living creatures such as ourselves? What if beings living on those planets actually exists and come visit Earth? Would they be also surprised that we live similarity to them. Also, is their planet located in our solar system, or is it in a separate, isolated location?"

As he processed his thoughts in his brain, he suddenly thought of a certain alien he was well acquainted with.

"Wait, I am forgetting about the presence of aliens such as Nagato. But according to her, they she does not originate from a planet. They were created to interact with humans and were put under the orders of the Data Integration Thought Entity and were interested in Earth 3 years ago because of Haruhi, who they thought was the key to human kinds auto-evolution and it's own. If that is true, is the Data Integration Thought Entity also living in an environment such as ourselves?"

"Oh man, I am starting to think like Koizumi. I need to stop immediately," he muttered in a frustrated and annoyed tone.

Kyon, who had unconsciously walked all the way to school and navigated to his classroom, plopped down into his desk with a loud sigh. As he returned back to reality, Haruhi waltzed in through the door, smiling her grin that made me predict I would be gradually become more exhausted as the day progressed. Still a bit disoriented, I thought to myself that if everything they say is true, then Haruhi is really the cause of it, just because she wanted to be different. It is still hard for me to accept this possibility, though.

"Say Suzumiya, why do you think Earth exists," I questioned suddenly.

"Earth, no, the universe exists solely for aliens, time travelers, and espers to gather together to cause something interesting to happen!" She said in an obvious tone. "That reminds me of the schedule I thought of for the SOS Brigade today in order to seek them out."

As she continued to ramble on about the SOS Brigade, a fleeting thought passed through my mind as I took a cursory glance out the window before Haruhi commanded my attention to be directed to her, "The world exists because you wished it, Haruhi."


A/N: Again, don't forget to review/criticize! I want you to praise this story or tell me you hated it and how to improve it. I especially want reviews that tell me how to improve. That means this story could become better!

This story was inspired by a random thought I had while going to school. I was looking out the car window at the green hills. (This is in California by the way.) I was then thinking about why and how we exist and if there are any other being out there, like in a parallel universe or something. So the plot bunny hit me violently on the head and I connected my thoughts to Haruhi Suzumiya. Drum roll please~ A story was born!~

Lastly, sorry I didn't add the whole conversation with Koizumi and Kyon. I understand that I also added or missed some words in that memory. I only added the parts that I thought most directly relates to this story. Thank you again for reading!