Hello 2010

Hello 2010 was published in Edition 19 January 2010 in the Inner Self Magazine. www.innerself.com.au


Some perceive that this first decade of the 21st century quite the Hollywood blockbuster. Surviving the Y2K bug, we faced 911, Bali Bombings, Tsunami’s, Wars, Climate Change and a Global Financial Crisis that changed the face of our geopolitical landscape. Others perceive this first decade as a science fiction classic with technology advancing faster than our perception of time. 

In the stories of the first decade of the 20th century, families sat around the radio together each night to listen to the news of the world, we met our friends at the local Nickelodeon for the Saturday matinee, listened to Scott Joplin on the hand cranked victrola, ordered from a Sears Roebuck catalogue, grew our own vegies, navigated by the stars, shopped at the local five and dime store and managed business with the newly invented typewriter. 


Fast forward to 2009, and we live in virtual on line realities where technology has infiltrated our very language. Listen closely as we daily Google, Skype and Facebook each other while managing the business of our lives on our IPHONE, shop on E BAY, download The Butterfly Effect on ITunes, order Bok Choy on line from Woollies, watch the latest blockbuster on You Tube and navigate our way around the world on Google Earth. 

Nothing has changed. 

Our stories are still the same – they just look a little different these days. 

The Book of Humanity, a collection of stories where health, wealth and happiness, defined by our socio cultural environment, cultivates patterns of human knowledge, belief, and behaviour, and influences what we regard as pain or pleasure, bad or good, ill or well, support or challenge and success or failure. 

If someone asked you how you were, you may Google your symptoms on your IPhone. My grandmother may have poked out her tongue and checked for coloured spots. 

Nothing has changed. 

As the great book of humanity continues to collect and grow, the stories are still the same - they just look a little different these days. 

Edith Lovejoy Pierce said "We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called "Opportunity" and its first chapter is New Year's Day." 

When we look back over the decade that has been, at the chapters in that book that has already been written, it becomes clearer that, as Freud, said, the future is a blank page. 

In your book, in 2010, what patterns will you cultivate? What stories will you write? What may you do with that blank page? 

Can’t wait to read it!!!