Where do we come from? Sometimes I wonder if those things in the history books actually happened. Those who existed hundreds (or thousands) of years before now could have lived completely different than what we read about, and just recorded other things to hide what actually went down. or maybe to make their existence seem more interesting than what really was.

Those events, creatures and civilizations that historians, anthropologists, archaeologists, palaeontologists and others have claimed to have happened and lived many eons and millennia ago - who knows for sure that they are even close to the truth? Did man really develop from living single-cell organisms that were produced from the effects of some colossal, galactic gas explosion? Or, did humans just pop up on earth out of nowhere?

How did our planet come about? A "Big Bang" as the scientists all claim, or during God's creation of the "heavens and the earth"? Or, was it both? Who really knows, unless, you were around when everything started and are still around today. No one may ever genuinely know what took place.

The universe in itself is a gargantuan enigma. How big is it? Does it have an end, and if it does, how do you get there? Is there other life out there? After all, it seems very self-centered to believe that the earth of the Milky Way galaxy, which is massive and possibly full of life, is the only place in the universe with intelligent life or even human beings for that matter. There are probably thousands, or as the huge expanse of universe seems endless, zillions of other planets that are inhabited by people; maybe, not with the eerie, bug-eyed translucent creatures that people have imagined to live out there in the "Great Beyond", but actual human beings like you and me. If this is so, will we ever make contact with them, meet them or was it just not meant to be?
Life's mysteries are endless and to a great extent "unanswerable".

They will (at least some of them) remain just that way, a mystery, that generation after generation of mankind will try hard - even sacrifice their lives and those of others to figure out.

I can definitely say that those great events, historical events if you will, that have happened during my lifetime have actually occurred: the advances in technology since man's first walk on the moon (although before my time), and his leap of ingenuity; the internet, for example, thanks to Mr Bill Gates; the less positive, infamous terrorists attacks on the New York World Trade Centre and the Pentagon; the war that rages on the Middle East - the US troops losing their lives and taking the lives of others for what seems to be a lost cause. The civil wars of Somalia and Ethiopia; the rapidly rising crime rates in nations such as our own Jamaica; the deadly plague of HIV/AIDS affecting over 40 million lives. Ten years from now what will be happening? Will disease affect twice as many people? Will weapons of mass destruction wipe out the entire Human race? Or, will the Green House Effect devastate our planet with another extreme ice age like that in The Day After Tomorrow? What are we to expect?

It's cool to imagine that decades from now students will be taught and tested on what has happened in our time. We will be in the history books, the anecdotes, the stories of "yesterday".maybe even fairy tales. Who knows how they will attempt to prove out existence? Will man evolve again as scientists believe we did before? Thousands of years from now, how will humans and the animals of the world look? How will they live? Will the scenario fabricated in Planet of the Apes actually happen? All those futuristic ideas that they will talk about today, will they actually exist in years to come? C'mon, actual flying cars and floating apartments and life-like robots!

Man has done so much in such a short span of time; it is not impossible for him to do much more in even less. To just think, have we, man, really moved from the discovery of fire to the discovery of ways to see light-years into space to cures for deadly disease? Such as cancer - yes, I believe that they have found a cure for cancer, and that the governments of the world have just withheld this information in order to profit from the marketing and distribution of drugs, some being placebos. So much, and man can do so much more.
But, will man's progress lead to man's eternal downfall?

We say "the children are the future", but what kind of tomorrow do we expect with the things that this generation is being taught, being made to believe?

The world as we know it has a lot of potential. However, the negatives that exist sometimes appear to overshadow the positive things that coexist with them. Let me just say that I am very thankful that I cannot see into the future!