Progress

Progress is to human life what struggle is to a prey, to escape its hunter. This is because just as a prey, which gets all the essential amenities to sustain life is still not satisfied in the shackles of entrapment, even we humans, strive always for success....to break the barriers....and explore the unexplored.

The hunger to succeed has always been an innate quality of humans, for if it hadn't been so, then man's dreams of reaching the moon would still have been an imagination. Furthermore, it is only due to the immense progress in the field of communication, that man today, can talk to a person in another corner of the earth, almost as soon as he thinks of him!

But as we all know, that nature is reciprocal, hence man has not always progressed for the better. No doubt, one of the most important factors behind strengthening the evil powers of the world, most of all, terrorism, is due to development in weapons of mass destruction. What more, by the use of a single hydrogen bomb, civilizations which take centuries to come to their present stature are destroyed within seconds! This compels us to think that is this why man progressed? It is true to claim that man is on the path of becoming a "super-satan" rather than a "super-human".

The loss of life is surely incomparable to the greatest of innovations made by us, for the basic purpose of progress is to enhance the quality of human life, and not eliminate it. Thus, there is no doubt to the fact that the progress made by man today is worth appreciating, but the side-effects of these progresses sometimes overpower the actual aim of the progress itself. Hence, ending on an optimistic note, we still have time to make up for all the problems we have created for ourselves by giving progress a whole new meaning, which comprises of the welfare of human life as well as mother earth.