Monday, January 24, 2011

Leeway!

Just another observation!
I watch national geographic and animal planet on a daily (if not an hourly ) basis :P ......We have acknowledged that humans are the most advanced of all species on planet earth at the moment and that we have the control. But do we ever stop and think about how much leeway our species gets from the time of our birth?
Just try comparing with any animal....the cubs, the pups, the fawns, the sea turtles etc etc....the moment they are born they have to get up and walk the walk and learn to survive..all in day 1.
But look at us.....after birth we are given all the time to crawl, drool, mumble nonsense.....time to adjust in schools, colleges, work......we get time, we take time.....to make ourselves comfortable with everything.... In spite of all this we buckle under pressure...make huge irrevocable muddles.....destroy many things in our incapacity to handle life........all bringing me to the one question?
Is it a mistake that we are given all this leeway? Is our leeway costing Us, the other species that inhabit this planet and lastly, the planet earth itself? Is the price worth it? Are we worth it? Cause even though we tried to do our best, it doesn't look like we did much good in the long run........The planet seems to be crumbling one way or the other...if not to us then to mother nature herself........Is this the planet's way of telling us "Enough....I cannot handle your leeway anymore....no more advantages for you...."?
One can only ponder................................!!!!

2 comments:

A True Believer said...

Human beings may be the most destructive species upon planet Earth, but we are also the most creative. Intelligence is both a gift and a curse dependent upon what one largely does with it. The same intelligence that can build nuclear weapons can just as readily bring life to a desert or even terraform a new world!

The problem isn't one of physical intelligence; but rather, one of spiritual understanding. Of course, we can do it - but, should we? That's where Yahweh comes in....

Vishaal said...

The state of affairs on the planet Earth tells a lot of what all is lost in the process of Evolution...we got so self obsessed with our discoveries and inventionns..being unware that it's tiny minuscle unrelvant discovery infront of the simple and yet complex process of life that nurtures in raw nature outside our level if intellect.... Look at a garden that's been maintianed day in and day out. To retain it's shape and beauty...at the same time go to a jungle it's all raw .wild... Out there..without human intervention it sustains all life forms...take care of new saplings..insects animals..and nurture them to grow ...and as they grow they add to the beauty of jungle...the dead is cycled back...nothing is waste there and all are inclusive... Unlike a human maintained garden..which has exclusive plants... Sophisticated machinery...use of chemicals to kill the life form we have no knowledge how they fit in....and end up generating tons of waste... Which gets rotten insome waste dumping ground... It's Exclusive Ness that's taking ship of mankind...down to the depths of no return unless we wake up....to it