Till death do us part

"The bad news is Nothing lasts forever
 The good news is Nothing lasts forever"
Everything is temporary, even our Emotions.

Every thing we do, we take it for granted that its forever, every breath we take we feel we will live forever. We make plans , years ahead with the thought of living forever. Our very existence is based on the idea that we live and everything is there for us forever.
For a minute, a day is too much for many people , but just for the moment if we believe that this is my moment ... what choice will you make?
Will it be planning a secure job, building your business, planning a family or a big house or maybe the new car or latest gadgets or maybe a vacation to tick off the bucket list. There is so much we want to do in this one minute and before we realise the minute is over.
Now rewind back and see have we been aspiring or really living our life. I am not sure how many can be honest with themselves but if we cannot make a choice for a moment, then our forever life is too long and why make a choice when we have forever.
Death is the only constant , change happens and if we don't change we don't survive. A simple rule which we have twisted to make it very motivational with changes which occur in our life. No two hands or people are same, yet we want to be sociable, likeable and engaging in our relationships. Our control freak streak surfs up every now and then. But then with centuries of conditioning and control we have developed different personalities and traits. Predominantly people like to follow and be told what to do. Most of us want others to believe in us and give us their approval. The sociable and likeable aspect of our personality cannot let us be ourselves. The idea of being outcast is not what we would like to be typecast as.
Free will really? Think before you think we have free will. Its a beautiful concept sold to us to "Feel good" about our decisions and ourselves.
The young adults are moving towards a more open and carefree lifestyle. They have somehow grasped the meaning of Nothing lasts forever and i do hope to see a change in mindset which is troubling many.
New age concept of marriage is diminishing, young adults want more from their life than getting married and having a family. Are we moving from our age old thinking of settling down? Our ancient ancestors were hunters, moving from one place to another. Then came the agricultural revolution and settlements happened. From here we went on to industrial revolution, now what are are talking about.
We talk about hackers, hacking our bank accounts, credit card details, emails, our phones, our systems etc etc... new age now has big data analysis which is hacking humans. Imagine a machine knowing more about us than we know about ourselves. Then one-day keeping in mind our patterns of making decisions; an idea or thought is put in front of us, and we make a decision. Is this our free will or were we coerced towards making this decision . I guess we will never know the answer to this.
Human resilience is immense , and so is our stupidity. Our ego refuses to see what is real as we want to live in our own reality. Maybe tomorrow will bring in a new civilisation and many of us will watch the changes from sidelines as we constantly keep repeating change is the only constant and this too shall pass. Will this new revolution of rise of new civilisation just pass or will we who refuse to see the major changes happening around not want to see the objective reality?
Future no one knows, no one knows what is planned but the one's who see it objectively are preparing for the change.
Maybe life is all about the opportunities and missed chances one gets. 

Let me tell you a story!!

Recently i read an amazing book, Homo Deus Brief history of tomorrow , my mind kept thinking; why do we consider ourselves better than the rest of mammals on this planet. Why we can't see the truth and live in objective reality.
Our evolution is based on our imagination and how we have developed stories which take us from objective reality to fictional reality.
The greatest gift, we have is art of story telling. A story which is believed collectively by humans to live in a reality which again is created by us. Sounds scary!!! but then thats who we are.
Many believe that we are the superior race, many also believe that we have a purpose in our life. We are the rulers of Planet Earth. Other animals are barely existing as we have consciousness while others don't.

Maybe the truth is not what we have repeatedly believed in. Maybe we are scared of changes which will come if we start living objectively. Maybe the "Elite" who are ruling the planet don't want others to see through the lies woven through centuries.

Its always good to go back to basics when we cannot understand what is happening around us. The fast pace with which this world is changing and developing is scary for many.

We all know Artificial intelligence is here to stay. Our development to become Humanoids is on the curve. What ever we do, we cannot stop this change. Our mental health is depleting rapidly as we are using more and more gadgets. We are not in tune with ourselves as our senses are more dormant than they were 30 years ago.

We are evolving much faster than we did in last thousands of years. Some call this progress in technology, while some call it doomsday. But the reality is we are evolving and if we are smart and let go of our fear and stupidity we might just see the dawn of new civilisation.
Our story telling ability, made us believe in religion and community life. This solves the purpose of all living in harmony. Superstition became the cultures backbone to heard humans like sheep. Our fear about everything made us believe in what was told to us. No one wants to be an odd sheep, therefore all move together as one.

We created money for trade, what surprises me is in this world where people are fighting for whose religion is better even in 21st century, we have no objection for money being used globally by all. We have no objection and nor do we want to know which religion person is giving money to us for trade. So does this imply that various man made god are redundant and the new god of today is money?
Which obviously we all believe in.
There is no fight that US $ is better than Euro or Dinars or Rupees etc etc. Money is universally accepted in any currency.

We are the greatest story tellers, our life is one big story. From the day we are born, a story is born. Sometimes i feel we are like an onion, we have layers on us which save us from reality and our lies which we repeat everyday hardens our story. As you peel the layers of onion, our eyes water. similarly if we try to understand our life built on lies and try to know the truth the pain will be unbearable and will get tears in our eyes.

Questions raised in Homo Deus, make me wonder what is our tomorrow?

What will happen to democracy when Google and Facebook come to know our likes and our political preferences better than we know them ourselves? 
What will happen to the welfare state when computers push humans out of the job market and create a massive new “useless class”? 
How might Islam handle genetic engineering? 
Will Silicon Valley end up producing new religions, rather than just novel gadgets?

Selfish DNA

Why are human's selfish?
Is it our need to be in control, or it is our need for immortality which leads to our genetic mutation of being selfish .
This theory is explained beautifully by Richard Dawkins in his book "The Selfish Gene". Dawkins uses the term "selfish gene" as a way of expressing the gene - centred view of evolution as opposed to the views focussed on the organism and the group. From the gene- centred view, it follows that the more two individuals are genetically related, the more sense ( at the level of the genes) it makes for them to behave selflessly with each other.  A lineage is expected to evolve to maximise its inclusive fitness - the number of copies of its genes passed on globally (rather than by a particular individual). As a result, population will tend towards an evolutionary stable strategy. The book also coins the term meme for a unit of human cultural evolution analogous to the gene, suggesting that such " selfish"  replication may also model human culture, in a different sense.

In other words " Birds of same feather flock together"

As rightly said, people don't join a company they join the people working in that company. It's the leader who people join, if they feel they have the same view points. Even companies look for people with right attitude and ability to learn. We all want to make copies of what we believe in. A cheater will always find cheaters around , as this is what will make the cheater comfortable. Similarly a control freak will always try to find submissive people around to be in control. Positive attitude will always pull leaders, mavericks and adaptors, while negative will pull adaptors and disruptors. Such is our DNA.

We as a race are destructive, self centred and very selfish. Now the discussion point can be to blame it on our genes. But then if we look at each of us as individuals we do see the residue of our parents, grandparents and peers who we look up to. We adapt as per our environment and social pressures. But then don't we also say that there is good in everyone?

The term "Selfish DNA" is a term for sequences of DNA that have two distinct properties: The DNA sequence spreads forming additional copies of itself within the genome: and, it makes no specific contribution to its reproductive success of its host organism.

Rightly, as selfish beings bring nothing to this world other than there own agenda. They can be termed as parasites or people with no distinctive future than their own betterment. Without realising that there is nothing a human can do without taking care of their environment.

If not today, but in very near future, we humans will have to evolve from this. No amount of money can buy us fresh water, fresh air and a green and stable environment. We for our hunger have built animal farms, we are the BUTCHERS of treating every living organism as shit. We have created war, we have created man made religions to control humans, we have created everything toxic on this planet.

Maybe someday, our hunger for money will make us realise when there is no food left on this planet, paper is not what we can eat. Will we start eating humans? As our numbers are huge and as humans we don't even treat other humans with respect.

If we want a change, then we need to change drastically. We do need to change our outlook of capitalism and religion, we do need to understand that we are not top of the food chain, we are just like other living organisms.

We do need to understand that immortality is in our actions not by longevity of our life.

So what evolution can we look ahead?