Allowing change

Just got off watching a Keanu Reeves movie. No surprises with the theme and the climax sending out the message that humans are a worthy race who will change at the precipice.

Or, we will not change unless a certain extinction forces us to do so.

However staid the message may be, felt that it underlines the core truth that we are all beings of habit. I like to eat food three times a day and hence get hungry three times (or more) a day. I am brought up to be an average person, hence I never think about stretching a point to achieve the "impossible".

What if we never had any boundaries - social or mental - to grapple with? What if the boundary was the only real one imposed by physical limitations - unless that too is a virtual boundary created by the species psyche over generations? Will we be able to perform tasks way beyond our means as we assume it to be today?

It will be an interesting social experiment to run a "Truman show" and study the results. Most likely, the outcome might be an individual who is not a human at all.

So, are we a race of underperformers? Or are we like a school of frogs in a well who refuse to let a peer escape from the mess we have dug ourselves into?

Time might tell us, if we let it.