Blogs 3
The Human Race
Does anyone know how this descriptive title of human kind came about, because actually it describes the human condition perfectly.
The race is on that is both very clear and very apparent, but what is the rush? The general consensus is that the pace of life has intensified generation to generation and the problem is that this momentum seems to have reached the point of no return.
Let us just take a step back, are we sure that the course we are now on is the right course and if we are either not sure, or worse, fairly sure that we are on the wrong course do we have the collective will power, or determination to make the change?
The answer has to be yes, no, equally clear is the fact that either it will take enormous determination, or a series of catastrophic natural events to drive home the need for urgent action.
What are the obstacles? Clearly quite huge, the influence of big business, banking and our current economic system has evolved dramatically during recent decades and has resulted in massive and highly influential international conglomerates that wield huge and some would say excessive influence.
How did we end up in this situation? I guess in many ways we took the easy option and simply followed on from previous generations , the sad fact which is becoming ever more clear is that it seems we took the wrong road long ago.
There is hope, an ever increasing minority is now questioning the very foundations, presumptions and assumptions that has driven the human race to the point we are at right now. Both isms, communist and capitalist have been shown to be both morally and practically bankrupt and even worse the very planet that sustains us is has been fatally damaged in the process.
So sadly the winner of the human race is........greed!!!
Terrence Aubrey,
CEO ,
One Moment In Time.
In truth that is what our lives are made up of, a collection of moments, each one brand new, fresh and full of promise.
Is that your experience of life? Probably not and mine neither, why? Have we lost something, why do we live so much in the past, or the future at the expense of the reality of living in the moment? In comparison with the other forms of life with whom we share this planet we are each of us like juggernauts fully loaded with hopes, dreams, fears, worries etc., etc. Is that why as a species we are so destructive, dangerous and out of harmony?
Did we control our birth? Will we control our death? No, so why do we strive so hard to control our life? Why do we try so hard to bend and shape our lives into our own personal vision of what, or how we think our life should be, our vision of what will bring us happiness, contentment and fulfilment?
It is as though there is a river of life that we are born into, but rather than flow with and appreciate that river we the human race individually and collectively try to impose our own order of how we think life should be causing us to so often be in conflict with the rest of nature. We will take, destroy and kill whatever we feel will help us to achieve our individual vision of how our life should be.
It is a pity and perhaps more importantly a fact that our collective misguided actions have dangerously upset the balance of mother earth. Yes as incredible as it is, in following our own individual vision of what we think will bring us happiness and contentment we are actually destroying our earthly home.
Is it possible that we can change our ways and stop rowing our individual boats against the river of life? Can we stop trying so hard to be something that we think we should be and start simply being?
If we can individually find that possibility then perhaps we can begin to experience the freshness, newness and beauty of each moment in time.
Terrence Aubrey,
CEO
