Author: abhishaq

We live for the validation of our existence.

It’s pretty amazing that, given all the advancements in electricity generation, besides solar, they all boil down to turning water into steam and driving an electric motor, essentially, backwards (not in reverse) and applying the right hand rule…

Do you think about the meaning behind the things you say or do? When you meet your friend and ask them how they are doing, are you really expecting to process their response? What’s behind that tradition you’re practicing? Does it make sense any more or are you just doing it because you were told/shown how to do so.

What does a holiday you might be celebrating mean to you? More and more, it seems the meaning behind things are lost or no longer relevant. It’s just another day and often it’s associated with some commercial practice and an obligation that must be fulfilled. On Thanksgiving, do you really reflect on your life and count your blessings and truly take time to be thankful for what you have? Or is it just the fourth Thursday in November again and (for the vast majority) has provided you with a day (or two) off to gorge on “traditional” thanksgiving food which will lead to buying sale items the next day so you can save money.

Nature’s design for evolution requires death as a necessary step. Without death, species cannot currently evolve.

We keep trying to live forever – Are we done evolving?

DNA = Stateless

DNA + Brain = Stateful

To the detriment of our future, we humans are inherently selfish and shortsighted.

This is not to say that there are not those among us who are, in fact, selfless and with great regard for our future. They are just scarce and increasingly ineffective in a rapidly overpopulated world.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/technology/fiber-optic-wires-servers-and-more-than-550000-miles-of-underwater-cables-heres-what-the-internet-actually-looks-like/ar-AAyqh6L?ocid=sf

It seems the size of the cables (actual fiber), astounding as they are for the amount of data transmitted through them, are a good metaphor for our social connectedness. Millimeter thick.

When an entity deprives another entity, other than the perpetrator, of their time intentionally or through callous discourtesy.

This appears to be the definition of courtesy most people are familiar with: “supplied free of charge to people who are already paying for another service.” (Google search). As in, “courtesy shuttle” or “courtesy vehicle”. Another, seemingly lost, definition of the word is: “the showing of politeness in one’s attitude and behavior toward others.” (Google search). It seems, like many other virtues such as accountability, responsibility and integrity, courtesy is an aspect of civilized humanity lost to the numbers.

I recall a principal at my grade school espousing the 3 C’s: Courtesy, Curiosity and Creativity. These were promoted for children but they all apply to adult and should be augmented by things like accountability, responsibility and integrity. All too often, these seem to be forgotten qualities and concepts. At least, they seem to have lost their meaning.

Whether you realize it or not, your mind’s eye charts a course for you. It’s not a point for point, stop for stop course like your GPS might provide you on a trip. It’s more like a “as the crow flies” course. Goes around mountains and tall building but right over a house or a tree. In order for this third eye to chart this course, you have to have an idea of where you want to go. Without that crucial bit of information, all the information and knowledge your brain might posses may not be any help in getting you to where you want to be.