An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
— Benjamin Franklin.
I get asked by both young and old people everyday: “Brain, why is it that our own is so different from that of our fathers in the first century?”
That is a silly question, isn’t it! Of course it is; or, maybe not. Maybe we really need to take a walk through time, not into the future, but a journey to the past, and then back to where we are. Approaching it this way, I realize that the answer to this question will go beyond just saying…“of course ours should be different, we are ‘present’ and they (our fathers) are ‘past'”.
There’s been more than just significant explosion in the contexts of our “worlds” from the first century through today. One would think we are in a brand new world. But come to think of it, Are we??? Brain’s Blog is about how life is like in this “New World” and how to make it through.
I read an article recently that played a very significant role in raising more questions in my head, some of which we are here to answer. Was the past really better than the present? We are at a point where even a teenage kid wants to get back to enjoy life as it was 50 years before he was born. If you asked me, I would not dare attempt to tell you why. But could it be that our circumstances are really so displeasing compared to the stories we hear of the past? The answer could be ‘Yes’ and ‘No’.
We are here to examine key aspects of life as it is today, saving the stress of often crying out for “the good old days” and ensuring that our lives today are as pleasant as it should be…today! hahaha…not a ‘living in the past‘ but a ‘making the present count’ approach to life in its fullness.
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There’s a saying that what one knows or have no experience about is the most desirable. And I think this write-up and the questions associated with it is expressly expressing such in my mind. The past, was an experience that lead us to to today. And it definitely was an experience because those of old had to experiment. And if in the present, we concern ourselves with the experience of the past while expecting a better tomorrow, then I am left just with one concern: Does the river flow upstream or downstream? If our forefathers lived their lives being disgruntled by their present and focus on the past would there have experience their future which today we are admiring as “old good days”. Yesteryears was an experience, we have today as an experiment. Until we experiment, we will continue to expect the impossible. Without an experiment, past or future remains a mystery!
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This is an awesome comment, and I see all the more the need to research and publish on general life and career issues making us cry out for “the good old days” today.
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Wow, its really an interesting write-up there. Despite all the technological improvements we still strive to compare with simple nature of the past. Is it an issue of the unending “want” of man or indeed a real need of comparison due to the the gaps realised
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The truth is that there is a desperate need in the heart of every man for a better, fulfilled life. We tend to desire even the least manageable situations of the past when we come face to face with challenging times. But until we learn to truly appreciate our present in light of the truth about life, we cannot make it through even a moment of hunger!
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