Which is good – Past, Present or Future?

“Mind is like a window, you can only see what appears in it”

In the Past:

A man was living with his family in a hut in an ancient village. He got clay pots for cooking, clay floors, no shoes, no soap, no shampoo, no brush, no TV, no internet, no hair gel, no moisturizer, no perfume. What he had was a flock of hens, a herd of goats, two cows and a land for farming, and a bamboo flute. His hut was the tallest in the village and he was the wealthiest in the village

All he and his family can eat on a day was a rice porridge with green chilies and onions, or with dried fish. He didn’t know that some day there will be a technological breakthrough that will connect all the world through internet, a window to the world through Television, Tablets, a vehicle without cows and horses. His Internet was his village, his tablet was his bamboo flute he played in the meadows while the cows grass, his tooth brush was a little twig of neem. His car is an ox cart.

On a day in the meadows while he was resting and the cows grassing, he thought to himself, the world developed so much and humans discovered so much like ox cart, flute, neem twig, clay pots and learned to build huts and domesticate cows, clothing ‘Wow…’ what a wonderful world and why anyone need more than that. On thinking he slept and the mind traveled from him to the near present time

Near present:

A billionaire man living in his luxurious mansion with luxurious cars and yachts was fishing in some part of the Pacific Ocean while on a vacation. Waiting for a fish to eat the bait, the mind entered him and he thought to himself “I got everything in this world, i can buy anything i want and generations can flourish, and am happy for what i have. What else more is needed and what else more can I get from this life? ‘Wow…’ this is a wonderful world, and his mind was disturbed by the fish pole’s dance

So which one?

On looking both the stories, every developed civilization thought, they are the advanced civilization on every point of time and that is true. Only major difference being the material surrounding, the quantity and shapes changed. For example speeds increased, flavor increased, music increased, knowledge increased, void in the mind increased, data increased and every of this is present in every point of time, just the quantity did not match. Entertainment took a new shape, TV’s changed to new shape, newspapers changed to new shape, Music took a new form, Technology took a new form, cars started wearing new fashions, communication changed. But the purpose of all this remained the same throughout time, the progress made so far is to make everything faster a little more.

1’s…50’s, 60’s,70’s, 80’s, 90’s etc., each of them dropped and will drop themselves from the shoot system to the root system and that’s how we progress. The mistakes and choices made by the past are just an event of time which was waiting to be triggered at one point or another like a dormant volcano. The mistakes never made will be triggered at one point in the future ,as that should be learned by humanity and it has to cross through that.

In short, we cannot really compare every generation, each of them was contributing, correcting and full-filling the people in its own way with what was given at that time period. Every time period is unique and we are here because they were there. So do we to the future.