YOUR LIFE IS THE COLLECTIVE CULMINATION OF YOUR ENTIRE LINEAGE SURVIVING WAR, FAMINE AND DISEASE – SO THAT YOU COULD SIT HERE ON YOUR SMARTPHONE AND READ THESE WORDS.
If your life was being witnessed by all those who came before you – what would they say?
Even from a purely genetic and anatomical level, your human existence is the culmination of some 6 million years of evolution or so of life’s yearning to exist.
Your eyes and ears could be considered the Earth’s desire to see and hear herself.
The hands that hold this device is an example of the ultimate agile innovation. They were once fins, then claws, then paws and finally after millions of iterations they became the very hands you probably haven’t appreciated until this moment… what a marvel!
Given the gravitas of the sacrifices and suffering that has been endured by your ancestors, will you squander this precious life opportunity or will you rest not until you discover why you were here and how your gifts were meant to serve to make this world a little bit better for you having been here?
“If we stand tall it is because we stand on the shoulders of many ancestors.” – African proverb
Inspired by Alpesh Patel at a PwC Networking Event on 12 Feb 2020.
