What Will Become of Us?
Toronto, Ontario
To Sick Children’s Hospital I went on foot with my god brother Krsnadas. We went in good stride talking about the world: the border dispute between China and India; the trillions of dollars of American debt; Copenhagen environmental discussion; the-all- things-made-in- China problem; the tar sands of Alberta; troops to Afghan; the troubled times of Tiger Woods. We concluded that it is indeed a crazy world we live in.
As Krsnadas put it, “We are headed off to seeing big changes in the world – in our lifetime and worse to come, beyond our life time.”
With the direction the world is taking I couldn’t agree more. What are we to make of the incredible demographical changes taking place? The white community appears less keen on family. The numbers are diminishing. The Islamic community is swelling in the world and in North America. What will all this mean in ten or twenty years from now?
What has man learned from past wars, dissensions and territorialism, from rampant diseases, famines and such?
Krsnadas and I parted at his workplace, Sick Children’s Hospital. As I left the building and took in a breathe of fresh air I looked up in the sky where clouds scudded by to sneak behind skyscrapers. I asked God, “What will become of us and the world?”
In the mean time we can immerse ourselves in chanting and surrender to the name.
8 Km
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