Twilight In Mozambique
Friends and readers. The cradle of life we are told is Africa, and there is a school of thought that say’s all life started there. That indeed may have some credence, depending on your viewpoint, but if not it need not matter, as more importantly is what can we do with the life we have.
We explore our past excavating relics of old to try and understand how peoples in the past lived, what they built and achieved, how their civilisations evolved and what happened to them. Puzzles remain unsolved, did the continent of Atlantis exist and if it did what happened. Was it the big bang theory that brought our solar system and planet into existance.
These and more have caused great debate amongst the experts over the piece and still do. But does it really matter, yes it’s interesting, and has provided much to write and speculate about, and no doubt in another millenium someone somewhere will unearth an Ipod and wonder what the hell it was used for.
We are for all intense purposes children of our time, a time in which we have discovered much and learned many things, some of which have been put to good use and others not so good. But as we look at our lives today and marvel or wonder at the paths we follow and the strange twists of fate that can lead us off into destinations unknown, is it really any different from the paths that out fore fathers trod centuries ago.
We may be faster in getting there better technology to do it but has society changed all that much, it’s an interesting debate, and when looked a little closer at it seems the differences are in the opinions. We live longer that’s for sure our ways of getting around are quicker, but in the greater scheme of things are our desires and requiements any different.
We strive to achieve sometimes in vain but still we soldier on. Life is lived at a furious pace with little time taken to sit quitely on a sofa somewhere and talk to each other perhaps over a cup of coffee, and when we do it can be very pleasurable. This little moment could be the real cradle of life and make the search for lost continents seem so very trivial.
If anyone has ever seen seen the twilight in Mozambique and the beauty of the darkening landscape you would say this may well be were life started, but on the other hand sitting on a sofa chatting with a cup of coffee may well have the upper hand.