A drive to thrive

It may sound cliched to say, that up until now, humans have taken almost everything around for granted. The list is long: places, people, relationships and the planet too. So engrossed were we in ‘moving forward’, that pause and breathe became the last thing to do.

hen suddenly everything changed. Almost as if overnight the equations we had known or the equations we had messed up ourselves became game changers. A carefree walk down the road, a sweaty basketball match in school, a scuffle with friends over the same love interest and late-night jamborees at street corners, or an aimless drive to another town on a whim are things of the past. But all is not lost, the air seems cleaner, the birds and bees are thriving and the trees seem to be breathing more comfortably.

Perhaps a little more concern and small doses of giving back could or would do the trick. Imagine the way the entire world could or would flourish if more conscientious attention was given to making the planet flourish. If every child was taught to respect the environment from an early age and if every family contributed in making small sanctuaries within the concrete jungles we live in, the tipping point may not tip over.

Absurdly we seem to be living the very lives we would wish upon our sworn enemies. We refuse to learn lessons from history, in fact from time to time we have negated the fact that those who don’t learn the lessons of history, are doomed to repeat it.

In the current scenario of the pandemic, everyone seems to have been impacted in equal measure: geographical and economic barriers seem to have been dissolved, creating an unexpectedly equal world: unfortunately laced with pain and destruction.

We have been turning a blind eye to everything for far too long and it has now overtaken and become an uncontrollable storm, listening to our inner selves and making peace with the world is the only way out.

There are innumerable examples from the past that should have been trail blazers had we learnt the necessary lessons from them, but alas amongst other human follies a short collective memory is the biggest nemesis. The Mayan Civilization, the Indus Valley and many more are milestones to drive the point home. So the time is today, the time is now, start a drive to thrive and make a way for a better future to arrive and that’s how all will survive.

-Bhatakti Butterfly