The Struggle Is Within
Fifty years is approximately an effective lifetime, leave out childhood and the deathbed years. One generation. It's a lot of time to fulfill the purpose of life, one might say. Indeed it is a lot of time. Now, take a broader view. In evolutionary terms, time is measured in million years. One generation is negligible time. Homo-sapiens have existed for about 200000 years. That means we are past 4,000 generations. We, meaning 7 billion of us. If one day out of my 18250 days (50 years) gets wasted, I get mad. Crazy, isn't it? I completely agree. But the one day is a critical component in the journey of evolution, however miniscule. Evolution happens, rather the impact of evolution can be seen only after few thousand years. So, as individuals, we have no choice but to accept the direction of evolution as given. That is perhaps what is destiny. It will require millions of people in each of the next scores of generations to cause any directional change. So, if we are headed towa...