Belief drives us...

There are lots of tiny events that happen in all our lives, but we often don’t give them any attention because many of them are too easy to neglect. They are either associated with things that are too tiny to be seen, or can’t be seen at all, or just flashes by in front of your eyes only a few nano-seconds, and costs almost nothing. However, many of the events that belong to this category are of great significance in all our lives. Without them, your lives would be no less than hell or mayn’t even exist. But apart from the reasons I mentioned above, there is one more reason for such negligence. Typically, all the candidates that invite such negligence are either too commonly available, or widely practiced.

It doesn't only happen with events, but with material things as well. Let us look at some such examples. The best example of one such material thing is the air, we breathe. Except for physicists/scientists or those with academic interest, I bet nobody has ever thought about the importance of this gas called oxygen in all of our lives. I read in one scientific journal recently that if the content of oxygen in the atmosphere differed from the present figure even by 0.01%, none of the lives you see around would ever exist. It is still a long way for the scientific community to prove how this precise oxygen content in the atmosphere could be achieved, and how long did it take for this process. Though there are lots of theories for it, all of these are only imaginative works and none are proven.

One other lesser example of such a material is water. We rarely take any notice of a glass of water, while we are eating food at the dining table, be at a restaurant or at home. I don’t know who and at what time during our evolution observed that water is a drinkable liquid and that it helped quench the thirst. But, isn’t amazing to observe a baby who is born out of its mother’s womb knows about this phenomenon without anybody telling it. Science could still not prove why it exactly is the way it is, either.

While all of us are equally bad at realizing the significance of these, we all would catch it easily, when these resources are absent or even little less than normal. While, nobody in this world would’ve experienced low oxygen, unless at great heights like at the top of very high mountains or at one’s death-bed (which nobody would be able to attest afterwards!), experiencing unavailability of water and hence its associated problems is too common nowadays, which makes all those affected realize the significance of this liquid in our lives. We don't need the science to help us here, it is experience that matters here.

Such an argument can very logically be extended to events also. Now, take this. I theorize that all events happen with some purpose. All those events do good to you. Had any slight difference been there in the nature or the timing of the event, your life would be nothing short of hell. Of course, none of what I said has been proven scientifically, but if scientists can be imaginative to tell us about how oxygen level dipped to support life in the earth and the possible window of time it happened during the life of the universe and come up with theories at the drop of a hat to explain a lot more unintuitive and stranger questions than these, why can't us too be imaginative? What is wrong in believing in something, especially when it can sustain human life? I see nothing wrong...do you?

PS: During one of my future posts, let us talk about such beliefs and also about how beliefs sustain human lives...