The Dark Age

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Thursday, 20 Nov '08

“An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.”
--James A. Michener

My Thoughts:
I remember a test done by a few scientists and it goes like this……Each person was shown a white paper with a black dot on it. And then they were asked to write what did they seen. I don’t remember the exact figure, but almost 99% of them replied that they saw a black dot. And the remaining ones said they saw a white paper with a dot on it.

99% of people failed to see the white paper…rather they had observed the black, small dot. That also works in life; we concentrate more on the negative, no matter small they may be. And we tent to ignore the good things, no matter how abundant they may be. And such a collective behavior would bring a dark age.