It's five months since my last blog, which was written as the recession was peaking (or should one say recession was hitting the bottom?)..

Last week starting with Japan, now Germany, France and Finland are giving positive numbers for their GDP , and it appears that the world is coming out of recession. It's a remarkable lie and mirage and its a game all of us play, never realising its a game and mirage.

Let's look at things in perspective.. The real big picture. As if sitting in another planet in milky way and looking at our little globe pre and post recession. Or as a better simili as if a child observing whatever happened.

Pre-recession world was a place of huge populations without essentials or struggling for essentials (say 70%), with the next lot with their leg on the ladder and head looking high (say 25%), and the last 5%, near the very top of ladder (but never getting to the tantalisingly close real top) gone bonkers with the height and terrified about the world below, but dictating everything in that, but depending on that even for their basic things.

Post recession where are we? With a bit of shuffing of these people, negligible shuffling in fact, the situation is much the same. In fact we have squandered an opportunity to look at how we live and what we should be doing.

There is a frightening pie chart of today's human activity..

If we make a pie chart of human activity today, and try to fit the various jobs/sectors/services done by humans, how many of them will be falling under the category, essential or contributory to life in this planet? How many of them will be frivolous and wasteful? and how many of them will be downright destructive?

So the bulk of the industries that closed and those who lost job, should take it as an opportunity to run away from the mindless mill of life with the bulk of non-essential activity and find real essential activity that sustains and nurtures life in this earth, and also uplifts human spirit.

It's a pruning that has happened, and if we desparately seek to get back to the mad chase of mindless development, the fellow looking at our globe be amused at our stupidity.