Park Walk Evolution

Picture courtesy of nation161

Let us not rest our fate on a piece of paper, on a tally sheet, or on a plot of space in the cyberworld.

Let us not make it appear as though one simply borders on sheer condescension, just because his views disagree with our own, even though we all know that he only speaks in order to withhold the belief that there’s always a better side to each and every one of us.

Let’s not point fingers, or blame our failures on an unfavorable schedule, with hopes to pass it off as fact. Let’s not cheat ourselves, or falsely convince others, or lie about our mental absence, or our physical absence, or worse, even, both of the two.

Let’s not use the traffic as an excuse when we come to class half an hour too late, when we’ve always been late anyway, or when we get home too late and too tired to even lift a pencil to start doing our homework, when we have most of the next morning to do it anyway, but end up not doing it at all.

Let’s not pander on what could have been, and insist on thinking that even the slightest departure from it is anything but acceptable.

Let us not wangle the truth.

But rather, let’s talk about the stuff that makes us great. You know, adaptability – the capacity to think and act on the balls of our feet; the ability to change and react according to the necessity of our times.

Let’s talk about how man has long since learned to take shelter on caves to protect himself from the cold, and how he’s learned to use fire to cook his food so that a slab of veal would neither be too tough to chew nor taste too bland. Let’s talk about how he learned how to walk using two feet when he began moving on four, then invented the wheel so that he could get around faster.

And when the cave became too cold for his tastes, he learned how to build a home using wood, then stone, then concrete, and then invented air conditioning systems for the times it was too hot and heaters for the times it was too cold. And let’s talk about how he invented stoves that worked off compressed gas to cook his food, so that he didn’t need to keep a fire going all throughout; how he invented cars when the horse-drawn carriages became too slow, planes and ships to get where land based transportation couldn’t reach, and rockets to reach even farther. And let’s also talk about he found a way to harness electricity and went on to invent the light bulb simply because he needed to read books at night.

Let’s talk about how much we’ve adapted, how much we’ve endured and improved throughout the years that surely, an afternoon shift does not spell the end of the world.