Serendipity

Image: Life hope & truth The evolution of man to what we are today has taken place over numerous civilizations and eras. And when one considers how far we’ve come in today’s technologically advanced world, there’s a sense of achievement or even pride at some of the things that are possible today that were unthinkable just  decades before. And the development continues at an astonishing rate as technology often pioneered by the developed nations spreads to the other parts of the globe. Man also advances socially, this is evident in the eradication of a number of horrific social ills that were perpetrated at different times in our history. Slave trade, the holocaust, ethnic cleansing by different regimes as well as numerous unspeakable exploitative and oppressive acts that have sometimes been brazenly carried out in some quarters while the rest of the world watched. Usually such events are relegated to the dark history of the human race, or so I thought.  Sadly the reality i

Image: Madison Just the other day, I was wondering how and in what ways our humanity is shared, if at all it is. As we traverse life, do we do so solely through our own experiences and consciousness or is there a way we are connected to and through the experiences of others. I considered how diverse our lives can be; how different and yet how similar human experiences are. I considered the extremes present in our world, poles of wealth, health, well-being, opportunities, exposure, intellect, understanding, sanity and even consciousness. I thought about how these contrasts don’t always exist in opposite ends of the world, oftentimes they subsist side by side, on different sides of a city or a street, or even within a family.    It made me wonder how much impact our circumstances have on how we experience the world, how we live out our lives. Are the experiences of the elite so far placed from those of the down trodden?  Those of the powerful from the weak? Those of the learned