Wisdom from Amal Rozario

Wisdom from Amal Rozario

Last weekend, I met Jose for a cup of coffee. He told about his latest experimentations with facebook, internet friends, making movies and writing articles. I told him that I will write an article that he can publish in his blog. He replied 'You always tell that, but you r busy'. I reminded myself that I will write him an article sooner than later. And so here is my 1st article for Jose.

Ever thought that we are all connected? When we see other people, strangers especially, what do we feel? If you are like me, probably nothing. I am starting to think we all are connected because we have so many common things. We all share the planet earth. We live, breath, eat, sleep, we have to work for a living directly or indirectly. Our needs are more or less similer.most of all, we all came from the same source.now what? Why would I say that?. While its night and day to see the differences we have based on the region we hail from, our religious affiliations, our language, culture, beliefs and so on, take a moment to think this possibility. here are my supportig facts.

1. we all know that the worlds population is increasing. We see that the population rose from 5 billion to 6 very recently? I remember when India crossed the 1 billion mark. If population grows with time, it sure was less when we go back in time. And if we intrapolate back enough, we can see we all came from a few people. may be from one family. ( Adam and Eve perhaps? )

2. I recently saw a national geographic program about the human genome project. The author spenser studies dna variations among humans of different groups and based on the mutations, he kind of traced back geographically where we all came from. He traced that we all came from central africa. The first humans migrated north into asia. One branch came south to India and went as far as Australia. One brance migrated north west and became Europeans. One branch north east into Russia, and came to America walking over ice, into the Latin America, long before Columbus discovered the new world. He traced all this based on DNA mutations found in people from different parts of the world.

How long have we existed? Biblical historians say its about 5000 years. Evolutionists puts the number around 40,000, before we branched off form apes. When I went to Niagara Falls, I learnt 2 things that facinated me.

1.The great lakes which feed Niagra will all drain to the ocean in 1500 year. After 1500 years, there will be no Niagara Falls. Can you imagine that? The base of the falls erodes inwards at a rate of 3 feet per year. Which means, the Niagara Falls itself is moving at 3 feet per year! What is my point? We are living in a world that is so dynamically changing every moment. And human life from our first parents to now is just a speck. In that speck is our complexities and difficulties and differences as white, black and brown(?), latino,tamil & malayalees and gultes and devar and pallar and so on.give me a break!

So the next time you see a person, see him or her as your long lost distant cousin. and then, think how you feel.

(Forwarded by Jothi George)