Not the Mirror - Not Now!

It is nice and warm to be at the hearth when the whole environment is pitch dark and cold.
We invented the 'zero'; imagine a world without zero, especially in this age of 0 and 1! We are a land of great people and 'Avatars'. We had the valour to win over the mighty Empire and drive them out. NASA is what it is because of our brains. The most dazzling diamond found out here is capable of buying out a couple of Nations!

When it is nice and warm at the hearth, it implies that the environment is icy cold!
Let us not fool ourselves with all these cliché’s. It doesn’t take an intellectual to point out to us where we really are. We are getting used to protecting ourselves with the shields of our past laurels; it's too dangerous an exercise - the past is already 'past' and what remains is just the trace of it. It can only provide an illusion of safety - when the rest of the world is moving fast ahead.

Let's not talk of "our 7% GDP growth when Europe toils in 1% and 2%" - growth percentages are gruesomely misleading when we do not consider the relative positions from where we grow. Our problems at hand are too obvious to be listed down - they are to be acted upon. The more time we spend looking in the mirror in a speeding car, reflecting our past, the more do we lose our focus on the present and the future.