We have become tiny creatures who can barely manage tiny relationships.

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Insignificant Creatures

We live in a vast universe that renders our existence insignificant.

We stubbornly looked for consolation in a rather small world, yet for centuries quite immense for our primitive resources and technology.

We worked insatiably to make this world manageable, known, smaller.

We invented weapons, fire, clothing, housing, and means of transportation; we destroyed or tamed natural and human threats and made it less intimidating, less threatening.

We shortened distances, erased language and cultural barriers, and made this world smaller. We changed the meaning of time and distance so that communication became addictively immediate, more efficient.

We got out of our small hamlets and our small tribal zones and turned the whole world into one global village. We made it possible to turn any human being on earth into a potential friend and ally.

And yet, as time passes and technology becomes more advanced and threatening, the world remains the same, but we have shrunk.

We may have millions of followers, thousands of virtual and real friends, but we have become tiny creatures who can barely manage tiny relationships.

The more knowledge available, the more uncertain we grow about everything. The more friends we make, the less we can interact with them. We have been enslaved by our own triumphs and achievements. We have been imprisoned by our own freedom.

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This was my entry to @mariannewest and @latino.romano’s 5-Minute Daily Freewrite: Thursday Prompt: TINY RELATIONSHIPS. You can see the details here.

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