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During the earlier stages of the earth’s conception, there was a cycle of creation and destruction spanning over many million years. The earth has seen multiple ends and after each one a new earth emerged. Creation and destruction- the two sides of the same coin…Yin and Yang…a natural cycle! This has always been the case, both scientifically and figuratively! I am not going to get into the religious part of it. From what I have heard and read, the earlier destructions of earth had mostly been natural catastrophes or calamities. The earth was still young and she was changing again and again to come to a stable state. And so, there it was! A newly made, stable earth…for all living beings, man, animals, trees, soil, microbes. Mother Nature very lovingly gifted us this Earth thinking we would all together take care of it! That was then!
Fast forward to today and it looks like things didn’t go as planned for sure. No, I am not going into a rant for what we humans have done to our precious earth. I am equally guilty of it! Also, I am not going to preach about what we should do to alleviate this sorry state of affairs, for I believe in practicing what I preach! I want you all good people to focus on the point where I mentioned that the ends that earth encountered previously were immensely catastrophic and fast in nature…meteorites, volcanoes, floods, etc.
But have you ever given a thought as to how the world would end in current times? I firmly believe it’s not going to be how they show in the movies or a zombie apocalypse! When I see and reflect upon all that is going on around me, I believe in my heart that the apocalypse has already been set in motion! The earth is once again changing! Natural calamity is one thing…it is going to happen because it’s natural. I am sure everyone knows at least part of the problem here! But what about the slow death of humanity? The very quality that separates us from other living beings is at stake. Wasn’t it this very humanity that Mother Nature so blindly relied upon when she first gave us this gift?
The point I am trying to prove here? Well…take for instance the current Covid 19 pandemic that has swept every corner of the world. Yes, it is a global emergency! Yes, it is a disaster almost amounting to a catastrophe! This should have been the time where our innate sense of humanity should have kicked in full-force! But instead I see and hear almost daily how crude we humans are being to each other. The sense of being the most intelligent and superior being on earth has cost great number of lives, for whatever our status in the ecological ladder, we cannot fight Mother Nature! We humans have been bestowed with rational thinking and logical prowess but still, during a pandemic as such, we are resorting to superstitions and gossips instead of self-researching about the novel Corona Virus.
Being the selfish humans that we actually are, we don’t care about spreading it to our fellow humans. Even after strict regulations from the government, we are audacious enough to think we are immune to this…false hopes much? Some of us humans are too adamant to realize or know for sure that viruses don’t care for the high and mighty thoughts about ourselves. Viruses don’t care about our race or religion or ethnicity. They are simply following the rule of nature, their life cycle! But we humans! We have now started to use this situation as yet another way to hate each other! Racial discrimination, antipathy, aggression, violence, cheating…everything inhuman! My good people, it is very important to understand that this is a fight between human existence and a virus, which is a force of nature to reckon with, believe me!
Sometimes I do feel the recent misfortunes that humankind is faced with are all punishments for plundering the natural way of things! And that this is indeed the pathway to annihilation of the contemporary human race. That we are now at the brink of an abyss and this is the point of no return! So, what can be done to restore the balance? Are things even in our control anymore?
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