...and the world came tumbling down

Just a day,
Just an ordinary day.
Just trying to get by.

The world, today, rocks in turmoil. Crisis after crisis plague the many corners of the planet. Its not enough that we live in a world where not everyone is lucky enough to get the basic necessities, like food, water, and medicine. Its not enough that those who do get such amenities don't think twice about it. These people then go ahead and burn some of the rare resources that we still have. Oil, very important in today's context, yet not really something we can live without. Creating oil, is a process thousands of years in the making, but with the deforestation in the world, there are no trees to shed leaves to help in creating such natural resources. If there are trees, they wont be there for long.

And then you have the human crisis. The population is ballooning to never before proportions. One may not think it fair to compare us to microbes, which just keep expanding as they constantly divide, but a little thought shows the analogy to be quite fair. There are, as always, two perspectives to it. Either we are the virus that plagues the planet, concentrating on the major organs (cities) of society, as said in the Matrix, or we are the antibodies that hover around the diseased zones (cities), and ignore the safe, and healthier (rural) areas of the world. The population distribution that we see today works in both ways. With large populations, you have a large variety of ideologies, some of which are bound to conflict with one another. And as the number of people increases, the responses that people have can vary a significant amount. Where someone would just turn a blind eye, someone else might respond with a slap in the face.

And now, you have greed. One of the seven deadly sins. Greed has now overtaken the marketplace of the world. The desire to earn more barter-able goods in a quicker fashion, allowed for us to enter the state we are in. In today's world, more money means more power, and more power is always good. Finance across the world depends on finance in one city. The traders of the world reside in one place where slight problems got ignored in the hope that time could tide over the problems. As is always the case in such a situation, Murphy stirred, and the world came tumbling down.

But what can I do? I'm just the stupid common man.

Just a boy,
Just an ordinary boy.
And he was looking to the stars.