I was at the Stonehenge the other day with friends on a road trip. We got lucky with the weather and thanks to a close friend being a brilliant photographer, we got some really nice pictures as well.
This second picture was tweaked of course and paints a really ethereal, almost mysterious picture. And that got me thinking..
Here lay a pile of huge stones, deliberately built for some purpose, that have lasted for centuries. Yet, we don’t know what they were put together for.
We have guesses – thousands of them. But we don’t know.
And that, for me, is simply magical.
The biggest issue for our race as we progress is that we are at a danger of loss of fantasy in debate. I remember growing up and having heated debates on topics for hours that were never resolved. These days, such debates end in 5 minutes with a ‘Let’s google it’ line.
We can find anything we want. Debates are not necessary. Thank You.
Our race is understandably arrogant. We have made tremendous progress and we are getting closer and closer to truly unraveling how the world works. Science is killing religious myths by establishing hard facts and theories that make intuitive sense. And of course, Google and Wikipedia have answers to everything, all available at a fingertip near you.
And that’s precisely why I love to see our failure to understand the Stonehenge. I revel in it. Failure gives us perspective. Failure triumphs arrogance.
And most importantly, it is this failure that permits us to dream and to not constrain ourselves by the world of logic and hard facts for a little while. Maybe this small dream would give way to bigger dreams. In the age of information overload, the difference maker may just lie in our ability to dream.
The realm of success and achievement aside, quite simply and rather vitally, what would we be without our dreams?
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