Seeing the Big Picture.

Extrapolating time as distance, the last 1000 million years, which is the age of our oldest known rocks, is represented by the distance from here to roughly, 3 city blocks distant.

 

Mankind rose from all fours just 60m down the road… and Christ was born just 60cm away.

 

This allows the enormity of time to gain credence in the capacity of man to visualize…especially difficult considering the limitation of humankind’s puny lifetime duration of just under 100 years.

 

But I beseech you… consider the advancement of humanity in that incredibly short span of his existence as a species.

 

From cave to skyscraper

From  raw bones to haute cuisine.

From jumping a metre in the air to manufacturing and implementing a successful research exploration to incredibly distant Mars.

From the snarl of wrath to an intricate debate on advanced mathematics

From faltering first step to Ferrari.

 

What other species on earth, or as far as we know, anywhere else in the universe… has made progress at this astonishing rate?

What other creature exhibits the drive and compulsion to excel and succeed?

What other creature exhibits the variance betwixt an expression of love in eloquent poetry and a declaration of outright, murderous  warfare… to his fellow man?

What other creature has the capacity for infinite creation and absolute destruction?

What other creature even considers these absolutes?

 

We humans are the vanguard and promise of tomorrow.

We have the responsibility squarely, on our shoulders…to endure, to succeed.

 

Marshal Gebbie

Reviews

[Ravel Lopez]

Wow, I really liked this piece. The subject is nothing I haven't thought about, but mind-boggling, nonetheless. Introspective on a very personal level as it's not about time passing, it's about humanity.
Thank you