05.11.08
The World Needs a Change
This is the 21st Century and the man is expected to evolve more and more along with the improvement of the Technology. But unfortunately what we see in our daily lives is completely the oppersite of this expectation. Everyday people are going after useless and selfish desires. Money had become the undisputed ruler of the world. People have become so greedy of wealth and money such that they would commit any horrible act to make their bids successful. Humanity and the value of a human life had gone even below the value of zero.
Personally i believe that this is the worst era in the history of man kind. And this could well be the ultimate decider of the entire destiny of man. We keep on saying about the advancement of Technology, setting up civilizations on places like Moon, Mars..etc. But what does it mean to those people who are suffering in poor countries, will it make any difference to their suffering..? I am afraid the answer is a big ‘NO’.
I know this is a very broad issue and can’t be discussed through one article in a blog, furthermore various individual could have different view points regarding the same matter. (In that case you are most welcome to express them through ‘Comments’).
Reasons for most of these problems are the faults of our own, so there is no point in blaming each other. One individual may have committed it, but ultimately all of us would be at the receiving end. People should need to be more sensitive with regard to things which are happening around them. I would like to take a very simple scenario to explain this fact, sometime time back (10 – 12 years) when a pregnant mother or a woman carrying a baby get into a bus people would try to help them in different ways (At least by giving her a seat ), but nowadays people would start looking at each others faces without doing anything. This may sound very simple, but it is the reality, infact the bitter reality. This is the same old story where ever you go.
We, human beings are designed (I am not sure whether it is the correct word) in a way that all of us need the help of each other. No one can survive alone no matter how strong and powerful he is. We need to understand this. I think that it self could provide solutions for number of problems we have. We are supposed to be the most intelligent species on this planet, but thus far we haven’t acted in that manner. This would be the ideal time to do so, if not all would be gone forever.
I am just a single individual, no Mahatma gandhi or any other. Personally i may have strengths and weaknesses of my own. But then again, all of us are not 100% complete, are we..?
Through this I won’t be able to change the minds of everyone. But if i can send a message to at least a few, then it would be a consolation for me.
Lakshan said,
May 11, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Well said mate, I agree with your thoughts. As it says all of us should “Be the change” you want to be. Anyway it’s not that easy as it sounds, but as you said we could start from the basics. The value system is what matters most.
Rohita said,
May 22, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Yeah mac This is a very good approach to discussion. In today there are few peoples think like this.
Great idea.
Waruna said,
May 24, 2008 at 8:52 am
I agree with u. Its Capitalism, making people greedy, even with the seat on a bus, I’m sure if the pregrant lady offered $$$ for the seat, someone would get up.
indika said,
May 26, 2008 at 5:01 pm
mac i agreed with u. and also agreed with the Rohith because when we talking this kind of topics we feel that we want to do something to change this world……but only you and me can not do it but it will be good start for all………
Tharindu said,
May 26, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Hay mcn,
I am really happy to read your post and I feel there is more than something to think here. You know we should really appreciate the humanity rather than being stick to technology. Money makes problems from nowhere to everywhere. Lakpriya I hope you would use this blog to talk about this matter further buddy. This is great work
Pramitha said,
June 6, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Hi mate,
I agree with you to some extent. I do agree that every single person is responsible for the chaos which has been created.
Mankind do have their pros and cons . To an extent, I appreciate the fact that mankind has far more develoed compared to the brutal, uncivil societies we used to have in past (I meant the intesnen abuse of power, bloody caste syste, blcak and white concepts,etc) . Now u can see at least to some extent people do have value systems (specially in developed world)……..PPl like Barak Obama in USA getting chance to compete for presidential election, women getting equal rights, ppl talking about fair trading and environmental effects, etc
But on the other hand,,,,as you have correctly said, ppl r driven by money. It drives them crazy…………..This is mainly bcz of lack of understanding of moral values….They hv forgoten the lessons which lord Buddha has preached……..
The main thing we lack as human beings is we always wanna be the winners (without understanding the mere fact that u could be a looser someday)…..
To overcome this 1st thing we all should do is,,,,,before putting our fingesr into others,,,,we should evaluate how bloody good we are!!!!…..(cz when 1 finger is pointed towards others, 4 are pointed towards u)….
As u mentioned Lakpriya, we all should have our roles to play in thiz so-called society, if we wanna get ourselves out from this hell.
Gr8 idea buddy,
Keep up ur gud work.
Pramitha