Duniya

The world is a strange place. Sometimes I find it hard to live out here whereas at other times,I am thankful that I have been able to keep a calm head above my shoulders for so long and hope that will continue to be the case till I exit from the stage.

We wreak havoc upon others just to amass more fortunes and ironically we do that in the garb of liberating the same people whom we kill. Mankind has become smart at inflicting miseries on others of its kind and at the same time coming up with strangely concocted 'alibis' that even a consummate lawyer would find hard to challenge.

We have grown intolerant of each other bearing the mentality of "mine is the only way to live" and others' ways of doing things have to be undermined at all costs looking at the world with colored lenses, refusing to  let go of our prejudices and biases. Remember there are a hundred different ways to skin a cat.

Is it a new form of cannibalism or have we always had that cannibalistic instinct in us or is it a stretch of imagination to cal it "cannibalism"? I don't know the answers to these questions. I am jut thinking aloud.

Some may interpret it as fighting to survive as only the fittest would survive to evolve. But I would call that as gross misinterpretation of Darwin's "Evolution Theory". In fact, we should learn it from animals. Let nature take its own due course. We can't confuse leg pulling with survival of the fittest. To some extent the instinct to harm/immobilize others stems from our own insecurities. If a person is secure enough he does not need to weave a web to trap others in it or a shell to protect himself from predators.

Now the question is how does he make himself secure. The answer though seemingly simple is that he open up and embrace the whole world with his arms. We/our forefathers have done a grave injustice to this planet by dividing it into artificial chunks called "countries". We have demarcated land borders and even divided waters. But that does not prevent the waters of a river from emptying its contents in another country (though to us/tax authorities that may seem something amounting to money laundering). May be that is why the concept of owning land seemed so out of this world to aboriginal Americans that they could never comprehend it.

But one side opening its frontiers may make it more vulnerable to attacks/barbs from the other side especially if the other side does not reciprocate. No treaties, armistices etc are going to ratify that sentiment. The only thing that can help is an evolution of the human consciousness, a little bit more maturity on our part to handle the fire without getting burned because if we don't do so  now, the human species might not be there in future. Though the earth might be relieved of a big burden but we would have done a grave injustice to our children because of our immaturity.

Wish I had the answers to above questions as you might be thinking by now that this man is raising more questions than proposing solutions.