Progress: What is That?
I have been thinking lately about change and time and progress, not only in my own life but in more general terms. This morning's paper headlined the news of four more Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan. One wonders if any headway at all is being made there. And then with the outbreak of hostilities in Lebanon, it just seems that there is little hope of people settling their differences and learning to share this earth peacefully. I'm reminded of the words of Eccleisiasticus in the Bible - something to this effect: a generation comes, a generation goes, the sun rises, the sun goes down, all is weariness, and there is nothing new under the sun, and all is vanity, vanity, can't do anything about it. These same passages do go on to tell us that there is a time for everything (a time to be born, a time to die, a time to mourn and a time to celebrate and so on), so perhaps we can take some encouragement that there will be some progress eventually!
posted by mamie @ 8:10 PM
1 Comments:
At 3:22 PM,
canary said…
I was talking about the bleak aspect of the world to a friend the other day. I thought about WWII. Imagine you lived in London England in 1940 or 1941. How bleak things would look. One just doesn't know how things will turn out. But think what might have happened if things had gone differently. If Japan hadn't bombed Pearl Harbour, if Hitler had finished off Britain before taking on Russia, if Britain had had another leader...so many ifs but what a different world it would have been.
What happens now may be equally "the tipping point" one way or another. We just don't know until after it has happened - like the high point of the market ( to quote a wise friend :-))
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