If human kind across centuries was to meet and introduce the ages we lived in, what would we have to say about ours?
The age of unbound progress and technology, the age where your voice, thoughts and work can reach across the world in a matter of few seconds? When man first starting exploring outerspace and imprinting its footsteps on the Moon? When living was at its most comfortable and we had things at our disposal, we really didnt need?
Or the age in which we harnessed technology to further erode our happiness? Of an economy running on foundations so weak, that it could all fall down and shatter any time? When we are bothered about who twitted about what and who liked your status? And we don't know if the person in the house next door is alive or dead? When we have deadlines to meet and green paper to make, in the hope that it would bring us happiness? When people who cared about you and brought you up, were relegated to a corner of your mind or even a corner of the home?
The age where we lost all sense of reason and became extremely shortsighted?
The age when the inertia was so high, that every single being born in it, got sucked into the chaos?
The age when humanity convinced itself that there is no other way to live but to run after the concept known as money? The age when we had no time at all for doing anything we liked?
A race devoted to wiping itself and the planet out?
A whole planet of intelligent life gone wrong? Yes. Thats the age where I come from.
Oh, and what would the people from the next age have to say? Probably the age where humans transported themselves from one spot to another by mere technology, so much so that evolution took away their legs and feet and left them with just a single finger on each hand to push all them buttons they wanted to!
The age of unbound progress and technology, the age where your voice, thoughts and work can reach across the world in a matter of few seconds? When man first starting exploring outerspace and imprinting its footsteps on the Moon? When living was at its most comfortable and we had things at our disposal, we really didnt need?
Or the age in which we harnessed technology to further erode our happiness? Of an economy running on foundations so weak, that it could all fall down and shatter any time? When we are bothered about who twitted about what and who liked your status? And we don't know if the person in the house next door is alive or dead? When we have deadlines to meet and green paper to make, in the hope that it would bring us happiness? When people who cared about you and brought you up, were relegated to a corner of your mind or even a corner of the home?
The age where we lost all sense of reason and became extremely shortsighted?
The age when the inertia was so high, that every single being born in it, got sucked into the chaos?
The age when humanity convinced itself that there is no other way to live but to run after the concept known as money? The age when we had no time at all for doing anything we liked?
A race devoted to wiping itself and the planet out?
A whole planet of intelligent life gone wrong? Yes. Thats the age where I come from.
Oh, and what would the people from the next age have to say? Probably the age where humans transported themselves from one spot to another by mere technology, so much so that evolution took away their legs and feet and left them with just a single finger on each hand to push all them buttons they wanted to!
6 comments:
So very true! An old proverb that, for some reason has stuck in my mind goes thus:
We squander health in search of wealth,
we scheme and toil and save
We squander wealth in search of health
and all we get is a grave
Pretty much summarizes the lifetimes that people go through without actually living!
The proverb is bang on.
Whats amazing is, even though most of us have this realization, we wont be able to break the bondage of societal conditioning in our lifetimes!
the age where we can express our ideas through blogs like this, the age where we can give feedback so quickly like this;
the age where thoughts travel the web at a speed actually greater than sound, the age which makes us think whether the earth is really round?
the age when you can spread your changed relationship to everyone status in a flash :)
@ Mayank, you are a budding poet!
with that said, can I please have access to your blog? :P
@Happy... yeah well, that too! :)
If we think that human beings across all centuries could possibly meet one day, then we aren't necessarily being short sighted are we;P
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