Perhaps I'm a little jazzed up from being at the Aviation Museum last week but when you stop and think about how innovative and persistent we humans can be - it's down right inspiring. Inspiring and scary when you think about what we can accomplish or destroy when we put our minds to it. Just think about what the dreams, efforts, trials, errors and successes of early flyers have made possible. The technology has been used to push the bounds of exploration beyond our little planet filling us with awe and hope. They same technology is used to create and deliver weapons that allow us to kill each other en masse, from a distance, and with terrifying results.
Imagine if those early flyers had given up or if they hadn't even tried.
The same could be said for all of us average schmos. All of us have gifts, talents, skills and dreams and we have a choice. To use them or not to use them. That is the question. But that is not the only question. If we choose to use, then we must consider to what end. To create or destroy? To build up or tear down? To inspire or deflate? To encourage or discourage? I could probably go on juxtaposing concepts but I think you've got the point.
I could tie this into a discussion about Jedi Knights and Sith Lords, using Anakin/Darth Vader as a case study of the dichotomous nature of the force. It could be an interesting analogy...but that is for another day perhaps.
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