Getting from Point A to Point B has never been easier. Whether you are new to an area or need to go somewhere in fastest possible time, Waze comes to our rescue. So, we would like to think. And we pacify ourselves that it must be the shortest route or the speediest one. Is it really? Sometimes, we cannot wonder but ask ourselves, are we actually taking the best route?
More often than not, on our return journey, we had been made to realise that there is indeed a more convenient route than the one we had used earlier. But then, who is to know how it would have been if we had indeed taken the other path? Is it a question of the grass being greener on the other side or a case of sour grapes just to pacify ourselves?
The situation is pretty much the same when we are told early in life how life should be lived. We are told to follow certain rituals and rules so as not to upset the status quo. We are told that tranquillity must prevail, the boat must not be rocked and that elders before us have paved the way. We should not be a smart alec to scientifically argue and rationalise certain seemingly paganistic practices.
We are informed that every gesture, symbol and material had its scientific basis that we are just too naive to comprehend. In time, we would see clearly when the haze was gone.
Now, after what seems like aeons later, we are still groping in the dark. Just like the users of Waze, should we just accept that the eye in the sky that oversees what we cannot see about the traffic situation is right beyond any shadow of a doubt? Or should we still be a sceptic that the technology is not infallible and knowledge always need to evolve and be renewed? Or should we just take it like Pascal, the real Mathematician who took the question of belief in God in the spirit of probability? Being wrong in the divine sense means punitive actions for eternity, which is a mighty long time. He, therefore, decided to be a believer as it made more mathematical sense to be one than not!
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