Tilak Amitava Chowdhury

Time is running out As we worry and stay unsure There are choices we need to make Painful and bold The comfort zone we are in Isn't comfortable anymore It's time to break the inertia Get ready for growth pangs Why are we do confused and complicated? Simple options scare us to death We want easy answers to tough questions But that's not possible and we know it I long for the simple life Where I live like a nomad Watching the sunrise and sunset Breathing pure air in my lungs The world is confusing We are trained to be lost Seekers confuse the shit out of people They dare to dare things unusual It's time for action Let us be brave and strong Let's find wind beneath our wings And aim for the skies where we belong

Recently we crossed the 8 billion mark. 8 billion of our species! Eating up and taking the space of other organisms and populating the planet. Something went terribly wrong around 10000 years back. We decided to become civilized and that was the biggest trap we created for ourselves. The countries, the villages, the town's all alienated us from one another. We ignored the nomadic spirit of our ancestors who lived free for over a 100 thousand years as nomads. They followed the rules of the nature. They lived by the nature. They were in harmony with nature. Suddenly all that changed. We tried to take control of our lives and completely messed it up. It was the beginning of end. The end of homo sapiens to be replaced by probably the robots who would evolve from us, as we replace one body part of ours with prosthetics and robotics. Another thousand years, and may be then we will be wiped out from this planet. Immortalised as robots who may live forever. But, till then, let us live like...