I grew up watching a television show called McGiver.

If you've never had that chance to watch this icon of the 80s, do yourself a favor and

give it a try.

Sure, the clothes are outdated, and the hair…oh my gosh, the hair.

Aside from all the bits that didn't age well, Mick Mullett and his trusty pocket knife

managed to capture my imagination forever.

Part of it was the adventure.

Part of it was the character of the man himself.

I mean, the guy was essentially a spy who hated guns, played hockey, and lived on a houseboat.

But hovering above all those elements was the true core of the show.

This man could make anything if his life depended on it.

As humans, we have this innate drive inside ourselves to make things.

This is how we manage to create things like the wheel, or stone tools and weapons.

Our tendency toward technology holds our ancient ancestors out of the Stone Age and into

a more civilized world.

Maybe for some of us, McGiver represented what we wanted to achieve, complete mastery

of our own world.

Our life is rarely that simple, and however hard we try to get our minds and hands around

this world we want to rule, something just slipped through the cracks.

Accidents happen.

Ideas and concepts still elude our limited minds.

Or human, after all.

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