Moving Forward
We move towards the New and the Unknown through the known. But the known may itself become a hindrance to new knowledge. The certainty of the present may well come in the way of expressing the new. This is the passage through which we seem to move. We live in an Age of the unexpected, an era of the unpredictable.
Of course, in a certain sense life has always been unpredictable in its predictability, uncertain in its certainty. It is certain that we die one day but death may come in the most unpredictable of ways and strike at a time when we are least prepared. Yet we have been conditioned into creating a certain safe-zone or a comfort-zone within this unpredictable predictability. But when Nature is moved by a higher impulsion, then one of the things that happens is that the unpredictable multiplies and becomes the norm. It is a sign that a shift is taking place within the workings of Nature and her processes that she has evolved so far.
Today we seem to be witnessing such a shift, right from the magnetic poles of the earth to the very modes of functioning of the society and even of our very body. Thanks to the rapid modes of travel and transfer of information, our very cells are being called upon to rapidly adapt and evolve under the stress of a new life. This life is not just a conception any more but already a new birth. Slowly it is learning to stand upon its feet and adapting to the existing ways of earthly life. Soon it will assert itself and eventually overthrow the old. But for the moment it has led to confusion: a confusion of values, a confusion of institutions, a confusion in our modes of thinking and even of our physical functioning.
Possibly the confusion is there to teach us how to truly live. It is there to pressurise us to evolve farther, yet farther beyond all that we have known and been towards the New and the Unknown.
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