The history of humanity
Think about the times when you take medication for pain relief or when you enter a shop to buy a CD. Can we really imagine what it took to make this possible? How much sweat, dedication and effort people put in to make these seemingly insignificant acts possible?
We were born in a land made up of laws and institutions, with physical boundaries, with several languages, with rights and moral codes, as well as inequalities and conflicts. How did this come about? Who decided this? How did it happen? It is something that we take for granted and therefore it never rouses our curiosity. Things are the way they are and thus it may seem pointless to ask these questions. But there will come a time for us to teach, transmit, and direct or to act upon, and we will do this according to what we have learnt.
The inevitable truth is that our own history began way before our own existence and it developed throughout the course of humanity, within the four corners of the world. We were born into a world which had already been created and studied, a complex world made up of the accumulation of legacies of billions of people.
We cannot include those who learnt to make fire or build the wheel or the first person to sow, cook, ride a horse or draw on a cave wall. Unfortunately we do not know who they were or when this actually took place. But we do know that there were people of tremendous influence. Whether it was good, bad or controversial, the footprints left by these giants were earth shattering, forever changing the face of the earth.
Great passions, brilliant minds, tenacious personalities, curious and creative spirits, unusual talents or the ability to produce exceptional work was an essential part of these people and they are a testimony to what our extraordinary species is capable of.
