The world is changing.
I know I know, of course its changing. Thats not what im talking about. Im talking about the fundamental shifts in so many aspects of our daily lives and beliefs that are going to substantially change how humans on this planet perceive things. I think this is a good thing. We as a species have always been adapting to shifts in our environment. Once we learned how, we started changing that environment to better suit our needs and desires. Now we are in an age when we are beginning to change things in an even more fundamental manner to brighten our own futures.
Im not trying to go into detail about the marvels of technology and science in general that are going to change things the most because there are so many different levels and areas that this is happening on that it would take hours of my time to write it and too much of your time to give a rats ass.
What I'm most interested in expressing is that while everything is changing, many people are trying the hardest to stay stuck in their old ways. Whether this is good of bad is far beyond the levels of wisdom or foresight that I have that I could possibly fathom it, but this is undeniably true. But since I am writing a blog and expressing my opinions I'll just say I think it is a crime of logic and reason.
We live in a world where everything we learn can be proven false or expounding on in a months time, sometimes shorter. With all this advancement in knowledge and science, we have answers for many things that we didn't have answers for when we started, as a people, believing them. Hell global warming was proven wrong like a month ago. By the same token, what we know now when be miniscule compared to what people will know 100 years from now. 100 years after that it will happen again.
While we have come so far, we still stay stuck to belief systems that have been there for decades, centuries, and in some cases, millennia. We once believed that the earth was flat and/or that our planet was the center of the universe. When those theories came out they seemed logical. But what do we know now? Our planet is spherical and is not even the center of our solar system, much less the universe.
What that example is meant to show is that the changing of times and knowledge needs to be met with the changing of what we believe. We cant stay in the same mindset that we as a people were in 50 years ago. Whats worse is that many people stay clinging to an unchanging idea built thousands of years ago.
Too much has happened, too much has been learned, too much has been lost as a price of this mentality. We have an unparalleled gift to adapt and to think outside the box and learn from our mistakes, and yet we cling to what we are comfortable with, what we have come to accept as normal.
We have to learn, as a people, to assess what we learn and help use it to build what we believe for the future. We have to stop closing off differing opinions or beliefs of others just because we believe something else. Im not saying scrap what you believe and start from scratch every time you learn something. Im saying EVOLVE what you believe, ADAPT to the changes that are happening everyday, LEARN to open the box of your mind and think in ways you never have before.
If we slow down, we will be left behind. Thats the short version. We have to take a look at what we've believed for so long and ask ourselves, does this still hold true. Does this question still have the same answer. Does this answer still fit the question. Once we accept that things are changing and deal with that, we can embrace that change and grow in ways the generations before us could never have thought possible.
Im happy to be in the generation that I am. Im happy because its our time, its our chance to change the world and everything in it. We have the opportunity to break down every barrier that has been present in the world up to this point. In our lifetime and in that of our children, this world is going to be the butterfly leaving the cocoon and spreading its wings into the future.
We just have to be ready to fly.
