Be the Change

Albert Einstein famously remarked in a conversation with Werner Heisenberg, he said: “you know in the West, we've got a beautiful ship and in it, it has all the comforts but actually the one thing that it doesn't have is a compass and that's why it doesn't know where it's going”.

This paradox of our times was propounded by the Dalai Lama when he said “We have wider freeways but narrower viewpoints. We have taller buildings but shorter tempers”. 

Will Smith said that “We spend money, we haven't earned on things. We don't need to impress people, we don't like”.

And it's phenomenal how the same technology that brings us close to those who are far away, takes us far away from the people that are actually close. 30 billion WhatsApp messages are sent today but 48% of people say that they feel lonelier in general. 

The paradox of our times is that we have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge but less judgment, more experts but fewer solutions. it was Martin Luther King who said that “The irony of our times is that we have guided missiles but misguided men”. 

Have you ever found it perplexing that we've been all the way to the moon and back but we struggled to start a conversation across the road or cross the train? 

And it's amazing that Bill Gates was known as the top earner in 2015 with a wealth of 79.2 billion but one in four CEOs claimed to be struggling from depression. 

Do we actually thrive off this paradox?. Is it that this paradox actually makes the media interesting? or it's what makes journalism interesting or what makes politics interesting or what makes television interesting. Is this paradox actually what would feed off and what we live off and what we talked about and discussed in our circles.

Doesn't it seem that we've tried to clean the air but polluted our souls? We've split the atom but not our prejudice, and we're aiming for higher incomes but we have lower morals. 

So I'm hearing you ask how do we bring a change, how do we dissect this paradox that exists in our lives and it starts by us. Each of us press pause, press reset and then press play again. Take a moment to become more conscious, Take a moment to become more aware. Take a moment to really reflect on the consequence the implications of a misplaced word of an unnecessary argument. 

We all know that we didn't need to have to speak to someone, just slightly differently, in a different tone, in a different voice, in a different empathy with a different perspective just to really connect with people on a different level. 

This thinking out loud started with Albert Einstein. I'll track back to him when he actually said that “The problems we have today can't be solved with the same thinking, we used when we once created them.

So actually we need to research alternative teachings, we need to deep down dig into those ancient books of wisdom, we need to go back to understanding if there's anything written in those creased pages of time that can actually reveal more knowledge and more wisdom of how we can transform our experience of life today. Otherwise, this paradox means that with every step forward we take, we're taking three back words every time.

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