There are a lot of people that don’t believe in destiny but if you think about it most of us already have a set line of how we are going to live our lives. It seems like the natural progression is that one grows up, finds a job they like doing, a suitable mate, and then they have children and live happily ever after, but is this really the dream we should all follow? Society is not what it used to be and women have begun to cast off a lot of the old stereotypes and have been focusing more on fostering careers instead of families. Should we be afraid that women are concerned less with having babies and more with making money and building status? No, of course not, the world is anything but scarcely populated so it only benefits society that less people have children and more people be concerned with the economic welfare of them selves and in a greater sense, their country.
Men are filling the role as single father more often as of late too and with much success as you don’t need to be of any specific gender to love and care for a child. Society is much like ourselves and gets bored with the status quo, plus when you have someone who has been at the bottom of the totem pole, they are inevitably going to try and work their way up. You can imagine the conflict this creates and it is conflict from which we all profit and suffer by because we live in a world a thousand battles happening all at once and ever continuing.
We can all see how an environment can create a person and change how they see things and in this day and age, people are coming into their own while our technology is growing exponentially around us. The America of suburban families may find itself a minority to the rise of individualism as more and more technology puts us in total control of our destinies. People can walk amongst us yet be completely lost in their own world oblivious to the people around them. You do it yourself when you get in a cell phone conversation while walking around in public. Information is starting to pass between us almost instantly as more and more devices allow people a degree of connectivity of a hive like mind.
However strong the pull of technology is, there is no denying our most primal of desires and that is to seek love and from this we are going to have children. The sum of our population is like water that spills into the future and fills in any cracks of possibility out there, that we will do all that is possible with in our realm and potential and whatever we can’t do ourselves, we’ll do with our imaginations and reflect that in our art and entertainment. There is a direction we travel which is beyond any of us to control, but we all play our part in setting these inevitable circumstances into motion. There is, of course, an incredible amount of potential for any individual in this tide of certainty, to go beyond what is expected, to try what hasn’t and to sometimes go against the grain of what is common. It’s this very tendency that has carried us this far and will continue to until we are no more.
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