BOUNDARIES

There are multiple theories about human evolution since people started to take science and scientists seriously. Scientists say we, the humans evolved from apes whereas few religions say we are created by god and few say about the Adam-Eve theory. The mankind has seen a lot of transformation physically and mentally too. The human population has increased exponentially followed by many religions, cultures, languages and boundaries.

People with a similar mindset and the same mother tongue started to form groups and live in a place chosen according to their comfort. The people who has same ideology started follow a religion of their choice. People who do same work started to live in a place suitable to their work and they were given a caste name.

It was good till then. Many modern day problems would not have arised if the way of living chosen by our ancestors is followed by the present generations also. But the modern world is filled with full of unsolvable with some illogical reasons. The people started to discriminate others based on their color, caste, religion and boundaries. These have became an integral part of the society.

But do we really require boundaries? Do we really require a religion? Do we really require a caste? Do we really require a government and a leader to rule us? Well, this is very complicated question. As said earlier, the boundaries were just virtual lines drawn between the early human beings. When there were very less humans, the food sharing was easy. Time being, the count of the population started to increase whereas the food was decreasing. So, the people got divided into groups and drew virtual boundaries. The only rule was the other group shouldn't hunt in their land as hunting animals was the staple food for the early humans. So, they started following rules and hunted only in their land avoiding crossing the virtual boundaries.

The humans are known for their greed. Few greedy species started to cross the boundaries and used to hunt in the foreign land resulting in war between two countries. But, there should be someone who should lead them from the front. So, they selected a leader who they believed was good enough to protect them and their land. Eventually, the leaders started to set the rules and regulations as the population started to increase.

The mankind learnt to cook and eat instead of consuming raw meat. The civilisation happened among them. They started to build houses to protect their heads under the roof. The house require many things like wood, utensils, stone, iron etc. So, people shared different crafts and each did a different job. The same craft was passed to the next generations and people started to call them by the job or the craft they used to do. That was when the caste came to form. A person's caste meant what he did.

Religion is another complicated term in the present world. But, religion was just a way of life for our ancestors. They followed certain set of rules and traditions to live a happy and healthy life avoiding the diseases and hurdles. They celebrated festivals when they got the crop into hand. They didn't fight in the name of got rather just prayed to them. They prayed to air, water, land, fire and sky which are considered as five basic elements of earth.

The people in the modern day are confused about the terms color, caste, religion. Color is just the complexion of the skin which differed according to climatic conditions of the place our ancestors lived in. The people today misunderstood the ways followed by our ancestors. Infact, they have started to discriminate people based on these thinking themselves superior. But the five basic elements treats every human being born on the earth same.

I hope at least the people of coming generations understand this and stop all the social evils in the society.