World, Hold On!

Its not the song I wish to write about but the idea its conveying.
The world keeps spinning around really fast - its speed keeps increasing... or so is the illusion technology and other such things create around us.
The possibilities are endless - discretion is fairly high..
We almost have all control of our lives!

Doesn't that give most people a sense of, erm.. power? maybe because you know you can control most things around you....and doesn't that make a lot of people content?

I Object.

What happened to the possibilities of living life without plans. Without "optimum utilization of resources" because, who defines optimum.. its never optimum!
One does come close.. to believing they're realizing their "close to full potential"... but who measures your potential for you -how can you tell your judgment is accurate!

Honestly, we're all the ones to take the easier route out...
When it suits our convenience - Effort is more important than output... and then we, rather intelligent individuals, manage a lot with dismal effort we bask in our own glory, principle goes out of the window...
And then we trust our judgment?

Control over nature - we've fought for that ever since prehistoric times, haven't we? Killed the beast for safety with our tools, dug into mines, made electricity so that night is as useful as day.. and.. well.. lets not get into how technology runs our life...
So what now? What happened to the sense of Not Knowing, Of taking life as it comes, Of for once giving up control and... then giving ourselves power - to not let other individuals or groups of individuals take control of our life...
Because i have serious issues with how society, family, organizations, peers, are all manipulative which i will not delve into here.

Will we be comfortable to just live? to give up the bigger things and find joy in the smaller things? The joy of learning rather than achievement (although both are equally justifiable and as human - collective importance laid on the latter kills the former)
Will we ever be able to break away from what is expected of us? of the "Right Thing To Do"? of what they say when they give a whole lot of advice in forms of lectures, scoldings and other things and say " I only tell you because i care"


As control freaks, humans managed to grab control of our lives from the hands of nature - but that doesnt imply we hold it in our hands.. it implies - that we've transferred it to technology, to trends, to vogue, to religion, to organizations... and the most lethal of them all ... to other people around us.. who infact are as clueless are we are!