YES, I AM.

Maybe, we, as human beings, are capable of knowing not even 5% of what is worth knowing from our surroundings. In a life time, we endeavor to know only 5% of what we are capable of knowing from our immediate surroundings. Out of what we are capable of knowing, we are able to retain only 10-20% of what we could have, perhaps, known through our efforts. Then, there is the question as to what extent we contemplate over what we have retained.

It is very difficult to answer this question because after having learned a few things, we hardly have enough time and serious intent to think about what we know, keeping ourselves very busy with the best of our efforts to live and keeping ourselves ‘satisfied’. We, normally, productively use only 10% of what we have known and retained, filling the gap of balance 90% by imitating others.

We know, we are what we know and what we practice. And, a liberal application of the above analysis shows that we are not even 0.05% of what we are capable of being. What a colossal waste of a precious human life? Are we an infinitesimal part of this timeless and infinite universal continuum making negligible use of our abilities? Unfortunately, we are.

Now, the biggest question we must, at least, confront with, is; are we prepared to pop out of the dust bin? Being a human being, we, individually, are expected to answer this question by saying, “Yes, I am.”

PROMOD KUMAR SHARMA 

[The writer of this blog is also the author of “Mahatma A Scientist of the Intuitively Obvious” and “In Search of Our Wonderful Words”.]