Everyone wants to change the world.

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We, as individuals desire to bring about a change in the world, including me; we aspire to be on top of this planet to achieve our goals.


Most days, we wake up broken with unaccomplished dreams that lead to a built-up of sorrows, worries, and, importantly, greed. Still, maybe in the upcoming days, we will somehow get motivated to have a good chance (because of the connectivity we have built among ourselves) to be successful and lead a 'well-settled materialistic life.' 


For all the species on the Earth apart from humans, this is not the case.


Only survival is instinct.


Thanks to fire, modern humans are already at the top of the food chain at the species level, but we should not forget that we still have the back tail bone. Services which we have benefited from our Earth are not that she (Earth) gives us gracefully; instead, it's being systematically looted by us.


Thinking (brain) and advanced connectivity have improved human lives, but eventually, over time - we lost the loop with biodiversity and the responsibility towards natural resources.


We have to remember that a tiny 2500-year (modern) human civilization can't match with 5000 million-year-old Earth.


Earth has already seen lots of dust and scars; maybe what we are up to is very minimal for her, but still, if we want to live 'live’-we have to be quiet (i.e., to learn to stop looting). 


பகுத்துண்டு பல்லுயிர் ஓம்புதல் நூலோர்

தொகுத்தவற்றுள் எல்லாந் தலை

- 322, கொல்லாமை/ Not killing, Thirukkural

 

விளக்கம்: இருப்பதைப் பகிர்ந்து உண்டு, பல உயிர்களையும் பாதுகாப்பது, நூல்எழுதியவர்கள் தொகுத்த அறங்களுள்எல்லாம் முதன்மையான அறமாகும்.


 Meaning: The chief of all (the virtues) whom authors have summed up is the partaking of food that has been shared with others and the preservation of the manifold life of other creatures.


ARE WE BURNING THE FORESTS OR OUR LIVES?

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