Which is the highest
mountain in the world? Mount Everest?
Which is the biggest desert in the world? Sahara?
If you thought those were correct answers, you are wrong.
Difficult to digest? You are not the only one.
Mount Everest is the highest point above “mean sea level.” It touches a height of 29,029 feet above mean sea level. It is the highest point on earth. It still does not mean it is the highest mountain in the world. Mauna Kea volcano, which stands a mere 13,800 feet above the Pacific Ocean, is the tallest or highest mountain because it also extends 19700 feet down to the ocean floor. Mauna Kea is about 33,500 tall, making it taller than Mount Everest by 4471 feet or 1.36 kilometers. Yet, we keep saying Mount Everest is the tallest mountain. Some readily challenge anyone with a different perception.
What about the Sahara? This story is similar. Sahara is not even the second largest. It comes in a meek third in the contest. The largest desert in the world is Antarctica, with an area of 14,200,000 square Kilometres. The Arctic desert comes second with an area of 13,900,000 square kilometers. The Mighty Sahara Desert comes in third place with 9,200,000 square kilometers. The immediate response that one gets normally is, “How can you call the Antarctica and Arctic deserts?” If you do not believe me, it is time you understand how they define a desert.
What am I talking about?
Facts and figures take seats behind our perception. We are unwilling to moderate our perception based on facts, figures, and truth. Let me lean on the serenity prayer!
Conditioned to accept things as told and resist and challenge anything that even remotely differs from our perception, humans have systematically stripped itself of their ability to sift facts from fiction, chaff from the grain, propaganda from reality, and promises from possible, ignorance fuelling the fear of the unknown. It started in the Stone Age, sustained across ages, crossed cultural and geographical boundaries, and emerged as a pandemic despite all scientific advances. The education systems world over focused on numbers and discarded knowledge, analysis, and absorption. Reluctant to step out of the cocooned comforts of the status quo, man denies himself a better world.
The submerged mountain and the Ice-clad deserts give us a few profound lessons.
If you need to be recognised you need to be visible.
If you are good and your goodness lies hidden deep, you are neither good nor good enough to be recognised.
Facts are forgotten and fiction reigns supreme.
Facts remain facts. It will NOT do you any good unless you publicise those facts.
Antarctica and Mauna Kea do not speak. If you do not speak for yourself, nobody else will. People speak for their competitors and imposters. It can happen to anyone. So, speak when you are good. Speak about your goodness and greatness.
In short, be seen and be heard if you are good and need recognition.
Social media is King. it rules the modern world. The young, adolescents and a large chunk of the adult population are hooked to social media. Assured of anonymity one can access anything on the platform, and there is no end to the types of platforms. One can initiate anything. The content could be genuine. It could also border on the ridiculous. The ludicrous get lapped up fast. The irony is that even the educated actively take part in the frenzy. When trash gets the bulk and momentum, it fills the place with muck.
If the ridiculous can be on media why can't the good be?
Go tell the world if you are good.
Go show the world if you are good.
To those of us who have access to social media, ( That is why you are reading me) it may be time for us to reset.
There are infinite possibilities and they need only infinitesimal efforts. Everything on social media begs just one question. Is it true?
If everyone looks at the truth or even attempts to…The world can be a better place.
For that?
First, don't believe Mount Everest is NOT the tallest Mountain.
Second, don't believe, the Sahara is NOT the biggest desert.
Please check if it is true.
