Tuesday, March 6, 2007

The Slaves of Time

Mankind has conquered almost everything. We have seen what lies inside the volcanoes, we have fathomed the oceans, a small step has been taken on the moon. In short, everything imaginable has been conquered and we have put the rubber stamp on things.

Yet there is something that hasn't been conquered and in my humble opinion it shall remain elusive to the mankind. The time.

We all talk about managing time better, not wasting it and the importance of time. We never talk about conquering it, overcoming it or defeating it. As I am typing this, as you are reading this, the clock is still ticking away laughing at you for spending yet other unit.

You come, you play your part and then you leave. And as someone said ...
Here I am, On the road again
There I am, Up on the stage
Here I go, Playn' star again
There I go, Turn the page

Thursday, March 1, 2007

Blip on Radar

Look ... What is it ... ? Is it a bird? Is it a plane ...? No !!!! it's the whole world passing by you. You are sitting idle and doing nothing and world is moving like it has never moved before. And instead of doing anything about it, you are sitting on your desk, listening to music and blogging about the world going past you.

It's like sitting on the sidelines of F1 and watching Montoya and Schumacher battle it out. Well, Schumacher is gone but his legacy is still here. Montoya has never arrived and yet his legacy is here. What about me? What about millions of other earthlings who are not even realizing that they are not more than just a blip on the radar of humanity and no one would give a second thought if suddenly that blip is gone !!!!

Never agreed more with Darwin. It IS the survival of the fittest. You had to be the fastest runner in the jungles to stay alive from the predators and here you have to be the wisest in sea of humanity. Even if you are wisest, the survival is not guaranteed.

In jungles it was every animal for itself. If you could run fast, you would out-run the predators and survive. You never thought about other animals. You just ran. Ran like hell.

And now it's about conning other beings. If you can con other people aka the humanity-that-is-not-realizing-blip-on-radar you survive. And there would be many such conmen and again it would be survival of the fittest. The best conman would win the battle of evolution and that man would no longer be the blip. He would be the radar himself. Reminds me of Big Brother of Orwell’s 1984 fame.

Something to end this and summarize ...
Here I am, On the road again
There I am, Up on the stage
Here I go, Playn' star again
There I go, Turn the page