Is This The Best Time To Be Alive?

I’ve learnt a lot about our past and I’m hearing a lot about the future. Our past was marred with fights of man with man, inequality and low life. And our future seems to be heading towards another clash, this time man and nature. Seems like nature will make us answerable to all the misdeeds that we have carried upon it.

Thus I believe that this is the best era to be alive in, but some people think otherwise. They give me examples of global democracy, injustice, plight of women and poverty to back their point. I agree with them that these are prominent troubles that are pinching our society. But these problems were there in earlier days as well, far greater in proportion than they are present today. And there were worse problems in our past.

Let us look at it from women’s perspective. In which period of our past, did women have so many rights and thought to be equal to men. Even in the so-called developed western countries, their condition was nothing less than miserable. But today, even the third world and Arab countries too have reserved rights for women. In today’s world women are becoming parallel to man in every respect, they are no more hidden in the layers of pardha (veil), can carry themselves without the support of their men folks, knows how to earn a living with dignity, and are gaining prestigious position whether in corporate of in prliament. Isn’t amazing.

Horrified by the thought of being of women in the past century? Imagine being ill. Epidemics and plagues were rampant thought the world, infant mortality rate were heart wrenching, number of hospitals and the facilities provided in them was pathetic. Add to that no antibiotics, And the scenario of a living hell is complete.

Today most parts of the world are virtually free of many killer diseases like the cholera, polio etc. The life expectancy has never been better. But then there are diseases like AIDS, that still remind us that nature is the one running us, and not the other way round.

Then they argue that we are the most indecent and ill-mannered society.
Oh Please! Let’s go back a little bit to the 1950’s. What do you see? Racism at its peak, caste wars, ‘No Black’ sign boards outside hotels and restaurants, no looking in the eye of higher caste people. Do that today and you are game for several years of free hospitality behind the steel bars.

No matter what others think, I truly believe that is, without a doubt the best time to be alive. Enjoy every moment of present, coz’ you really don’t know when the future begins.