Sometimes I think we, the humans, are amazing creatures. How we have transformed from the wild ‘cave man’ of yester years to the man of today; cultured, civilized and sophisticated, is amazing.

The man from the caves now lives in houses that are built according to the highest standards of quality construction, elegance and sophistication. The man who used to eat raw food on the go with his bare hands would have never imagined at that time that in the later years he would be served with the most processed and aesthetically pleasing food on his plate. Accompanied by the most brilliant cutlery and assortments to satisfy his pallet. He had no connections with the people living in other parts of the world and was just limited to his own family and tribe. In fact no device to keep him entertained and connected. I wonder how he used spent the whole day without them. Poor lonely soul spent his day without any text or voice chat and had no social media site to share his ideas on. How boring life must have been.

Thank God I am in the world of today; Cultured, Civilized, Satisfied, Healthy, Entertained, Connected, Protected and Social human being. I am so happy to have what I have. Am I happy?

Am I really cultured and civilized? Yes, I think I am. Today I know how to carry myself perfectly in the best manners of elegance and sophistication unlike the wild man I once was. But yes, I am ignorant or maybe not interested in learning about others or their needs or my role in the society. Yes, I am cultured. I do wear the most expensive linens and silks to cover my body unlike dressing myself in leaves. But yes, I do not care if other humans can even afford to barely cover themselves. Yes, I am civilized and I know how to talk in the most sophisticated manners and languages of the world. But yes, I am totally unaware of the basic language of love that in actual connects all humans who can speak or not.

Am I satisfied with the abundance and variety of food on my table? Yes, I can have the world’s most exotic dishes ever discovered by man; unlike the raw food my ancestors used to eat. In fact I have the world’s most refined tasting food to satisfy my pallet. But yes, the food I am having is so highly processed that it has no nutrition value and I understand that it is making me sick day by day.

Am I entertained? Yes, that’s the best part for being present in today. Media keeps me engaged and I can enjoy 24/7. But yes, today at the cost of entertainment, watching a million dollar block buster movie in cinema or TV, all I have to give away is just one and a half hour of my time which I earlier utilized to enjoy the small things in life that mattered the most. Am I connected? Yes, I love the way I am connected through technology to my old friends and family. After all humans are social animals and their basic need is to connect and share. But yes, in spite of being connected, I feel lonely and as if something is missing in my life. I guess it’s because I am not present in my present. I am physically sitting right in between my family but I am not connected with them. In fact I am connected to people who live in the other part of the world.

I feel protected. Do I? Yes, in addition to all the advancements man made, he has significantly grown when it comes to his protection.  Today man has the most sophisticated weapons to get rid of any life form he feels threatened from. But yes, I am not protected because man is using these weapons against his own kind.

Who are we and where are we going? None of the advancements I have mentioned above have proven that we are better as humans then the cave man was. In fact I think today we are more ignorant and savage then the earlier cave man. In fact I think we are the savages, not them.

Still asking why? Well because:  We hunt humans, we knowingly eat the food that makes us sick, we do not value family, we do not express others or understand emotions, we are ignorant to the needs of others, we do not speak the language everybody can understand, and we do not believe in equality and respect others on the basis of how powerful they are. We are savages….

Today we need to learn who we were. Listen to our heart and instincts of nature and return to our basics – Return to innocence.