The Sky is the Limit
Man has tremendous potential to achieve well beyond the limits of his or her imagination. Indeed, man has yet to reach his or her greatest potential. Truly, the sky is the limit. It is only a question of when and how? If one is prepared to pay the price and persevere, one can reach higher and higher into the skies.
This is evident in sports, where records keep getting broken. For a long time, it was thought that the mile could not be run under four minutes. Sir Roger Bannister broke that myth on May 6th 1954. So too was the human mental barrier that the 100 metres could not be run under ten seconds. With or without anabolic steroids, the ten second barrier has now been broken many times. And records will continue to be broken until truly the limits of human physical ability is reached.
What about the mind? Is there a limit? How high is the sky? The last hundred years have been amazing, astounding and astronomical - to put it mildly! Whatever man has put his mind on, the result has been truly rewarding. Whether it is in science, medicine, biology or warfare, the results have been nearly unbelievable.
Medical science has developed vaccines to battle infectious diseases. Organ transplantation has been around for decades. Stem cell research has led to cures. Cancer can be overcome with certain aggressive therapies. Medical biotechnology and advancement in appliances has simplified surgery and produced wonder drugs.
In the area of warfare and weaponry, we have seen the development of weapons of massive destruction as well as smart bombs and missiles being wantonly experimented in the latest wars. Biological weapons are still around and available in the closet, dangerously lurking and awaiting the arrival of a leader, crazy enough to deploy it.
Information technology and the internet has taken information around the world in seconds. Communications is only a few seconds away, no matter where we are. Using satellite monitoring, anyone or everyone can be spied on, followed and monitored. With Google Earth, the world is being mapped down to a few metres on land.
Man's intelligence, innovations and inventions over the last one hundred years tells us that indeed, we have not reached the maximum of our potential and capabilities.
What about you? Where are you today, amidst all that explosion of intelligence? Are you a part of it or are you apart from it?
You are no less intelligent than your neighbour. You are no less extraordinary than your neighbour. You can soar in whatever field you are in and rise up to further heights. It is not just in business volume and money. It is about new ideas, new projects, new inventions, new programmes. Even if some thing has been there before, you may be the one to develop it further.
Who says that there is no more scope beyond the wheel? Is there no device besides the wheel that can take us further on land. Electromagnetic ways can move trains, even lift them off the ground and move them without physical contact. Who says that man cannot fly or that man cannot float? There is more beyond the boundaries of our knowledge, if we humble ourselves to learn and if we know that we are subject to the overpowering Hand of our Maker.
The story of the Towel of Bable comes to mind, when man put their minds together to build a tall tower to reach to the skies. [Genesis 11]. God intervened by creating confusion through languages. That barrier is no longer there. Are we back to the situation before the Tower of Babel, now that we can indeed talk to one another? The question of human clones and other dangerous biological experimentations comes to mind.
Nevertheless, man does possess an amazing mind and the sky is the limit.
This is evident in sports, where records keep getting broken. For a long time, it was thought that the mile could not be run under four minutes. Sir Roger Bannister broke that myth on May 6th 1954. So too was the human mental barrier that the 100 metres could not be run under ten seconds. With or without anabolic steroids, the ten second barrier has now been broken many times. And records will continue to be broken until truly the limits of human physical ability is reached.
What about the mind? Is there a limit? How high is the sky? The last hundred years have been amazing, astounding and astronomical - to put it mildly! Whatever man has put his mind on, the result has been truly rewarding. Whether it is in science, medicine, biology or warfare, the results have been nearly unbelievable.
Medical science has developed vaccines to battle infectious diseases. Organ transplantation has been around for decades. Stem cell research has led to cures. Cancer can be overcome with certain aggressive therapies. Medical biotechnology and advancement in appliances has simplified surgery and produced wonder drugs.
In the area of warfare and weaponry, we have seen the development of weapons of massive destruction as well as smart bombs and missiles being wantonly experimented in the latest wars. Biological weapons are still around and available in the closet, dangerously lurking and awaiting the arrival of a leader, crazy enough to deploy it.
Information technology and the internet has taken information around the world in seconds. Communications is only a few seconds away, no matter where we are. Using satellite monitoring, anyone or everyone can be spied on, followed and monitored. With Google Earth, the world is being mapped down to a few metres on land.
Man's intelligence, innovations and inventions over the last one hundred years tells us that indeed, we have not reached the maximum of our potential and capabilities.
What about you? Where are you today, amidst all that explosion of intelligence? Are you a part of it or are you apart from it?
You are no less intelligent than your neighbour. You are no less extraordinary than your neighbour. You can soar in whatever field you are in and rise up to further heights. It is not just in business volume and money. It is about new ideas, new projects, new inventions, new programmes. Even if some thing has been there before, you may be the one to develop it further.
Who says that there is no more scope beyond the wheel? Is there no device besides the wheel that can take us further on land. Electromagnetic ways can move trains, even lift them off the ground and move them without physical contact. Who says that man cannot fly or that man cannot float? There is more beyond the boundaries of our knowledge, if we humble ourselves to learn and if we know that we are subject to the overpowering Hand of our Maker.
The story of the Towel of Bable comes to mind, when man put their minds together to build a tall tower to reach to the skies. [Genesis 11]. God intervened by creating confusion through languages. That barrier is no longer there. Are we back to the situation before the Tower of Babel, now that we can indeed talk to one another? The question of human clones and other dangerous biological experimentations comes to mind.
Nevertheless, man does possess an amazing mind and the sky is the limit.
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