Travelling is a passion for a large chunk of population around the world. Depending on the financial condition it may involve only travelling within the country or travelling around the world. It may involve travelling for work or pleasure. Whenever we travel we do it to see new places, meet new people and experience new culture. Singapore and England is completely different in all aspects but Human intelligence is hardwired to see patterns in what seem to be random.
Slowly we understand these patterns connecting seemingly completely unrelated places and people. At the basic human level the things are actually the same everywhere. All around the world people do the same thing- they travel to work, use public transport, make friends, eat out, fall in love, fight, and quarrel, feel jealous, and get angry and so on. In every country the concept of home is also the same- a place we feel safe, happy.
As per science it is called entropy- things can be chaotic in many ways but it has one way to fall in order.
If we consider this in different time frames and different places then also it stands the test of time. Life is same as it was in England in 17th century and what it is now in Mexico City. The instrument may change according to place and time but the tune will be the same everywhere. The old consider the past as the glorious days and the young look out to the future to be bright. Both consider the present to be chaotic and the past or the future to be ‘in order’. The old think that though there was less comfort in the past but till is was better, the young think that the future will be far better than the present.
Why does this happen? There must be something that is binding all of us across space and time. The human nature has stood the same across all ages irrespective of the progress we see in the outside world. The emotions and nature of human beings don’t change easily while the things on the outside change in a faster rate. Even today we have the same problems as people had 3000 years ago and we seek answers the same questions we asked a millennium ago. The archer shot the arrow 500 years ago for the same purpose as a soldier would fire a bullet today. We are fighting for the same causes as we fought 2000 years ago. We love our children the same way as we loved 100 generations ago.
We can say that the human nature remains the same but development moves ahead. We can say that the problems of this world and the individual human being are because of this disparity. The two important things – emotion and intelligence are moving at different speed. While emotions are still stagnant, intelligence is moving exponentially with time. May be that is the reason why our lives are getting complicated day by day.
It may be possible that the present status of our lives will continue this way until humans make the next evolutionary jump. As far as historical records are available we humans have behaved like this since our evolution from primates, and I don’t see any change in future if we stay in the present evolutionary form. Our emotional side had a major jump from the primates and therefore it is expected that the next evolutionary jump will bring the next set of emotional changes, not before that.
There is only subjective changes in the world and not objective changes. It can be put this way also as – a person who changes will witness changes, if a person doesn’t change then he will not see any change. If change has to happen then the only thing that is required to be changed is - themselves.
Thank you Telesfor sir.