The ecology of life ( continued)

What is an ecology ? The dictionary says it is a system which is effected by a number of factors or variables which are in turn interdependent. The life of human beings can be best compared to an ecological system. A persons education, his family, his upbringing, his school, the society he grows up in, the neighbourhood he lives in etc etc all have a bearing on what the person ultimately turns out to be. In addition to these external factors which can be controlled to some extent, are the other "given" conditions like his temperament, his health, his genetic constitution etc which are decided by nature at the time of his birth. Just as in a Mathematics problem, we try to find an optimum solution taking into account all the conditions, so also in life, we have to find an optimum solution to all the deliverables. Behind this obsession with earning money is the subliminal mental model or paradigm which says that money is the solution to all problems.