A Human's Struggle to stay Human

There was once a boy who had a great appetite. His father was not financially able to satisfy his craving for food thus the boy was sent to work in a warehouse to earn for himself. The boy ended up in the warehouse sticking labels on bottles and burning the mid-night oil writing short stories. Very early he could identify his niche for writing and started posting publishers his short stories with the intention of getting at least one published. Never did the response knock his door. Though disappointed, the boy engaged in writing and posting implicit in hope. Eventually there was a response. His story was selected but there was no remuneration instead there was a note which read “Well done. Keep writing.” That gave him the impetus to write more passionately. He grew up to become one of the greatest English writers who has produced some of the world’s best known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. He is none other than Charl...

The world is impregnated with myths. The Oxford dictionary defines myth as fictitious, a misrepresented truth or an exaggerated and idealized conception. Corroborating with this definition could overpopulation be debunked as a myth?  There are ambiguities concerning overpopulation as to whether it is a menace or a myth. Today, we observe the World Population Day. The Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme recommended its introduction in 1989. The inspiration for this came from the interests raised by ‘Five Billion Day’ on July 11, 1987 – the day when the population reached five billion. The theme for this year is ‘Family Planning.’ This is because 2018 marks the 50 th anniversary of International Conference on Human Rights that affirmed family planning as a human right. The Tehran Proclamation, adopted during the conference, states that it is a basic right of parents to be able to decide on the number and spacing of their children.   Before w...