The word man seems to echo an all powerful being in this modern age. An age that defines the beauty of man, an age that defines the character of man, an age that illustrates the thinking and intelligence of man, an age that answers to the domination of man. Mankind is a defining turn in the history of the earth, and each of the 6 billion of us have played a role shaping it.
Or so we say!!
This time and cosmos is such a gigantic concept that a man in his lifetime would fail to perceive and understand. Just thinking that Himalayas grow at the rate of 1 inch a year should talk about how long it would have been as the earth geology started being formed. Each one of us lives a few 10s of years and nearly 3 generations are made in a century. We ought to be talking of 100s of such centuries for us to understand the real beauty and vastness of this universe.
It has been repeatedly pointed out that man is just a chance accident in evolution, and yet here we are trumpeting that we are the creatures specially designed by god to take care of other beings. Where did we get all this false pretext about our greatness?
The dinosaurs dominated the world for nearly 2 million years, and this "intelligent" man hardly started to live a civilized life for a few thousands of years. There has been and will be so much diversity of life that homosapiens is just one of the billions of its grandeur. Man is not the fastest being, nor is he the most strongest and neither the most flexible and agile. The only amazing advantage he has over all the creatures that have walked this earth is his thinking. We talk of these gifts as talents, something godsend, but think again..ponder over the other facets of gift given to the other being. Striking a gazelle by the tiger seems to be evolutionary advantage that the tiger has in slowly crawling and knowing the exact time to attack his prey. Yet we talk of our purpose, our rights, freedoms as if these were things we invented. These are all a different form by which nature offers us to survive. It is all another way man is being made to survive, this nothing much to pat ones back for.
The cosmos through's out an entirely small picture of man. We talk of light years as if it were a few minutes walk to the grocery shore, but imagine its vastness. The stars we see today, at this current point of time is never there, maybe eaten by a black hole or undergone a supernova explosion. We can hardly see whats at the end of a street, when people are talking of many universes. I heard that the scientists of the apollo when they wanted to take the picture of the entire solar system, found that earth was one small blue dot smaller than the pixel of the monitor.
And admists this vastness of space and time, you and me go on carrying our worldly affairs, and talk of greatness!!
