Time’s Role as The Catalyst of Change

A bidirectional blade we need to tame

We all know that time flies so fast. An undeniable fact that laces it is the way time stimulates the human civilization to always keep up with the time itself, creating a sense of rush and eventually human’s ambition to evolve fires throughout. 

We all witness how civilization and technology develop rapidly in a short amount of time. Nevertheless, we can’t deny that those stories from the past–which some retrospective people want to bring up again–are the ones that shape what we are now. The way people in 1940’s built everything by hand and now we have that cranes and stuff to improve the efficiency of the construction shows that the past has had full influence on all developments we’re making now.

Another example we must feel related to is how technology has become the things we can’t let go of nowadays. We used to do anything without the help of technology. But as the time goes, the primitive way of life is quickly replaced by technological developments. It’s getting larger and wider day by day. And now, technology has engulfed all humans as the feel of necessity for it grows within. 

Yet not all changes stimulated by the time bring a good impact to the human civilization or the planet we live in. We–and the earth–used to have a lot of green spaces around and we can feel the pure oxygen everywhere. Can we now feel the fresh air uncontaminated by the vehicle fumes or the smoke coming from our neighbor’s garbage burning? Can we now find any control variable for the ‘effect of microplastic’ experiment? 

Modernization, in all its glory, is an unforgiving fusion of destruction and clamor to the earth. We don’t need to regret anything, because it will never reverse the time anyway. Now, it's our time to focus on where we will bring this direction of modernization–whether it’s to our betterment or maybe, our devastation.