Evolution: The Lost World

Like a gentle faint voice calling out to me from a distance, I couldn't tell when or why I left the comfort of my home and wandered outside.

There I was, in the cool of the night, relaxing on a soft chair with its back tilted, listening to the low running noise of the electric pump as it circulated water, and made ripples on the swimming pool beside me.

The fog lamp on the fence lit a small piece of rectangular lawn in front of me, as I watched the sprinkler spray the grasses at intervals.

I said within me: "This is tranquility". 

Perhaps this was the strong call that led me outdoors; leaving behind the conditioned air, TV sound, chemicals called ingredients oozing from the kitchen, and the black shoes I had to wear all day in pretense of comfort!

Out here, I felt more human, ...but it came as a shock to me to realize that there was something still missing, I thirst for much more than this!

As if my mind was listening, I was lost in thought to a time of many generations past, as it was told, a time when men still knew their roots ...especially on the African plains.

As the night approached, men, women, and children would gather each in their group. Tales were told by moonlight; myths and legends, bringing awe and excitement. 

The trees were near, the sound of the wild was all around, there was no baby crying, no reason for anyone to feel out of place. There was no such word as "job security", young men just grew into their father's trade. 

Then they needed little to go by, no need for "Real Estate", every man had a compound of houses accommodating his large family. Such evenings would have been a whole new definition of tranquility. 

Maybe that was what I subconsciously longed for, a lost world, regrettably impossible to experience.

Embracing civilization and the simulated environment in our home is now our means to survive. 

Who knows, in later years, when Science-fiction movies come to reality, my future generations will wish to experience even half the tranquility I have tonight.

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Composed by Ruxton ADEBIYI