Where Have We Gone?

It is 2011. So much has happened. The world has seen a seemingly infinite amount of once unimaginable things. Our abilities to understand and invent have sparked new forms of amazing. At our fingertips, we have powers never seen before. And we are still going.

But where? Are we closer to something? Are we going somewhere? Or are we standing still but spinning faster and faster? Though we have created an array of powerful tools and weapons, we seem to be struggling just as hard as ever with life's deepest and truest questions. We still search endlessly for our purpose, for our understanding of what really is valuable. Many times the inventions we bring home serve as much to distract us from what is valuable as they do to draw us near.

Frankly, I'm refreshed to know that the questions we need answered most, are still up in the air. There is still a fiery debate and fight about right and wrong, good and evil, truth in whatever form it ought come. We are still kicking. Still struggling, still suffering, still not there yet. We have done so many powerful things. But remember that the real power is elsewhere. What we really want is hidden deeper than the TV screen and the handheld library. I'm sure some of us will find it. I'm sure some of us won't. Good thing, otherwise it wouldn't be much of a catch.