survival of the simplest.

last week through aimless wanderings through the streets of bangalore... it dawned on me.. we have plotted our own course for extinction. technology isnt helping us live better.. it is only making discomfort more prominent. earlier if you were ill you ignored it, if you went more ill you rested and if you went more sick you died. simple. now if you fall ill you medicate, then operate and then artificially respire. there is no healing only curing. we drank water from pools, ponds and rivers. now there is purified water, distilled mineral water, water purifiers that distill water with UV light and make it 'potable'. the flip side you dont get your dose of bacteria, immunology 101 daily dose of a little miscreant makes you more tolerant to the element. there are now pills that you can take for everything. and we still struggle to cure common cold. have we really made progress. have we really gone beyond where we were. we havent been able to domesticate a single animal since we moved on from caves. we still are struggling with the idea of prolonging life. but nature has escalated. it moved on. it doesn't strike with common cold and malaria any more. we now die of dignified diseases cancer, AIDS, STDs, and then it laughs at us b throwing in an epidemic or two. bird flu, mad cow, dengue, and what have you. then the natural calamities. the tsunami. the volcanoes, the earthquakes and what do we have against them? nothing.. absolutely nothing. we are still the nasty kid trying to take on the gods thinking that just because it can walk it can out run. and nature is the placid adult toying with us and laughing at our naivety. nature isnt the enemy, it is the watchful adult with the ghost stories to keep you in line. and you better stay that way.. cos these ghosts are for real. and they are deadly. live simple. dont toy what you dont understand, try to understand what you dont. live simple and die when you should.. attempts at longitivity is short-lived...!! think about it...!