Saturday, August 22, 2009

Timescale

Fling your arms wide in an expansive gesture to span all of evolution from its origin at your left fingertip to today at your right fingertip. All the way across your midline to well past your right shoulder, life consists of nothing but bacteria. Many celled, invertebrate life flowers somewhere around your right elbow. The dinosaurs originate in the middle of your right palm, and go extinct around your last finger joint. The whole story of Homo sapiens and our predecessor Home erectus is contained in the thickness of one nail clipping. As for recorded history; as for the Sumerians, the Babylonians, the Jewish patriarchs, the dynasties of Pharohs, the legions of Rome, the Christian fathers, the laws of the Medes and Persians which never change; as for Troy and the Greeks, Helen and Achilles and Agamemmon dead; as for Napolean and Hitler, the Beatles and Bill Clinton, they and everyone that knew them are blown away in the dust from one light stroke of a nail file.

From Unweaving the Rainbow
by Richard Dawkins

So the point? It's simple.

Aanewala pal..
janewala hai..
ho sake to isame..
zindagi bita do..
pal jo ye aanewala hai..

Enjoy!!

2 comments:

Unknown said...

tats a nice song...n a nice para..:)

live life to the max...dnt think too much...and take it as it comes..:)

'Ek Baar Waqt Se Lamha Gira Kahin
Wahaan Dastan Mili Lamha Kahin Nahin
Thoda Sa Hasaake Thoda Sa Rulaake
Pal Ye Bhi Jaanewala'

Mohsin said...

yup.. in other words 'meta is murder' :)
n those are nice lines too..