The Wrong Path

We are on the wrong path. 

Selfishness, carelessness, ignorance, laziness, thoughtlessness, and greed are the traits we exhibit as a species. Not absolutely everyone behaves like this. There are innocent tribes dotted in various parts of the world. Our modern way of living is unnatural. We are impatient and stressed out. We need to change, as a collective. Like fighting a war or a sudden disaster, we need to ban together and each do our bit. I have not experienced a war, but I have experienced urgency, for I am South African and lived in Zimbabwe in the late 1990s when the government started expelling ethnic Europeans. The media elsewhere have noted the time as being the early 2000s, but I can assure you that it began in the ’90s. We had our bags packed ready to leave at a moment’s notice, and we went to England with no more than about £600. So I know difficulty. We, humans, are on the wrong track. And why? Simple, really, when you think about it. We are our own worst enemy. As in Chinese and Okinawan boxing, the real battle is with ourselves. We need to see our problems as us being at war with ourselves so that we take it deadly seriously with an absolute sense of immediacy.