A panorama of life in 12th Century

All this time, I have been enticed to write on this topic of the sort of life that people lived in the 12th Century, and finally, I have been able to satisfy my urge my putting my thoughts on paper. 


My first inspiration about life in 12th Century leads back to the fact that people in 12th Century believed that the Earth was the center of the Universe. The Sciences back then weren't that prominent, and this illusion, as I supposed has had severe impression on people's mind. 


Consider this:


A person who lived in the 12th Century thought that the Earth was the Center of the Universe, and that the Universe, as opposed to our present view about it, was finite and comparable with Earth (Only a few hundred times bigger.) . To this man, Planets seemed like the reincarnation of Gods, and thus he named them after them. Also, the purpose of his life was pretty much visible. His life to him didn't seem like a bunch of random events, but events that were delicately and carefully planned by a being much more superior than him. 


Though, today we have several means to satisfy ourselves, make ourselves happy at the click of a switch, and talk to long lost friends and peers by switching on a simple device, but the motivation and the sense of purpose that the man in 12th Century had is indeed never replicable.


Our lives today are complicated, with mixed motivations. We wake up with mixed motivations of what we want to do today, and we rest back in our beds with a mixed feeling of what we had achieved during the day.


The pure sense of motivation is in fact lost, and the best we can do is to realize that. Life nowadays doesn't seem like a dream full of joy and happiness, but a series of events that result in aggregate happiness or sadness. 


I would like the readers to part away with a thought in their mind. "What would life really be like if we still thought that the Earth was the center of the Earth, and that humans still possessed an important position is  the so called tiny frame of the Universe."


-Chirag