Change

The world is changing. We're coming up on a point of mankind where our own evolution will be visible in our own lifetimes. Not in a physical sense, but an intellectual and spiritual one.

We're able to see mankind as a whole change. From the Agricultural Revolution, kings and queens to elected officials by the people, the Industrial Revolution, the Theory of Evolution, the dawn of Nuclear power, the first man into space, the Electronic age, the Internet, the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's and the new millennium. We're at a point where the gap between changes are getting closer and closer.

I used to wonder about how my grandmother felt about the changes that she's seen her whole life. From living a simple life on a rice farm in the 1930's where telephones were a luxury to living in a world where people now live in organized blocks and street systems in a suburban community with a vast majority of people who possess electronic devices that are able to beam information to a satellite in orbit to track their exact position on Earth. We've become people obsessed with information and getting it as quickly as possible.

The world is changing and so are it's ideals. We're in an age where people no longer leave responsibilities and unanswerable questions in the hands of faith and religion but rather to science, logic, and to themselves. We're living in a world where God isn't being defined as the one portrayed in Christianity/Islam/Judaism or any other major religion for that matter, but through our own experiences in life, and we're one of the lucky generations and countries to actually be given a choice to believe in a God or not. At the same time, we're still discovering higher spiritual ideas even with the decline of religious belief in society.

When we pierced the clouds and flew into what we hope would be the heavens we discovered there was nothing except the vastness that is space. We discovered a new frontier that no one could have ever imagined. Our curiosity for our existence plagues us, yet also motivates us to search for that meaning and to embark on the almost never ending journey to discover ourselves. We are well rooted and no longer nomads, but still, in a sense, searchers and journeymen; the irony that is the human race.

Morals are evolving. People are changing from warmongers to peace seekers. Chivalry is making a comeback and so is brotherhood. Love's definition grows longer with the decades and assistance to our fellow man is at an all time high. Ideas are becoming a collective, creativity and art are highly encouraged and concerns for the humanities and arts are on the rise.

The world is changing, almost to the point where you can see it unfold before your eyes.

People, we live in a beautiful time.