“Everything is at the tap of a button, but you need to have the will and the determination to wanting it“. This is the final quote from Saroo Brierley in this great video. It is a true story of an small Indian boy lost in India, adopted by an Australian family (he also adopted the accent!) and finally figuring out where he came from through his recollections and long searches on Google Earth. The fact that Google used the story to advertise their products does not change the inspiring nature of the story
The full story of Saroo Brierley is accessible on in this long and emotional article on Vanity Fair, ‘A Home at the End of Google Earth’.
We now have at our fingertips much more power than we realize. Power to discover and observe the world in a way that was not available a few years ago. Power to find our way in the world, by ourselves. It is available. We just need the determination. What if we used that power as we could?
