As a history student, I’ve read about how we have evolved. However, all those analytical history lessons have also taught me that we as a race have a tendency to arrive at a full circle – we repeat our mistakes.
Through these history books I have witnessed great leaps in technology, and this balances everything out for me – a parallel between constant creative genius and consistent political stupidity. Both very powerful forces, and when the first is used by the second, then it can take on its inverse form and reverse its function – creation turns into destruction.
In a vision for a happier future, we must put a full stop to this madness, this circular trap we’ve built around ourselves. Science will, in this glorious future, be used for its true purpose – to create and innovate, not destroy. A future where thousands of small animals will not be cruelly used to test cosmetics or tortured in order to propagate research for new medicine – where technology will be mastered by the humans, and not be our master instead.
However, I wouldn’t want this to be a future where everything is just so perfect already, that we start to stagnate and lose our survival skills. Instead, there should be many more possibilities, for further evolvement – to move from one great achievement to another; achievements that stand as witnesses to the great capacity of the human spirit to be pioneers.
Pollution is a problem that needs to be solved, urgently – in this beautiful new world other sources of energy will be harnessed, and much of this horrible waste will cease to exist. We have technology but we also have so much waste matter to dispose of as a consequence, and a solution to this ominous problem will present itself in the future.
The human race in its creative avatar will embrace nature once more – alternative health care will be considered as important as modern medicine and the holistic benefits of meditation, aromatherapy, massage and herbs among other natural treatments will be reaped.
A future, where the importance of the arts will finally be understood and embraced, a future where writing, music, dance and art will be much more respected than they are today, as career options and art forms.
A future where children will be looked at as citizens with rights, and will enjoy respect and due attention – a future where we live as one with the world around us.
These new citizens will contribute to the creative capacity of the world, and become the future artists and scientists, creating a wonderful balance between the skyscrapers and the tropical forests, and a world which is capable of forever evolving.
A future in which history books will look upon new developments – where that apparently interminable circle will be forever broken, and a path to greater possibilities will be carved, where nature and everything associated with it will be protected and revered, where religions will cease to be a basis for strife, where the word artist and scientist will be interchangeable – a future, where every child will face the world with a head held high.
By Shreya Sanghani - Writer and Activist
Eco Living
Kyoto and beyond
As a history student, I’ve read about how we have evolved. However, all those analytical history lessons have also taught me that we as a race have a tendency to arrive at a full circle – we repeat our mistakes. 
2 comments:
Very thought provoking.
Interesting to know.
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