Why
Almost all of us start out the same. Healthy and normal and full of potential. And then life does things to us. Life does one thing or other to each one of us and it changes us. It forces us to make changes and to adapt and to be afraid and warry or open and loving. It teaches us to love our children or to hurt them. It teaches us right from wrong and then makes us choose one.And it teaches us to hurt one another.
It teaches us to take our anger out on others, or to bottle it up inside and hurt ourselves instead.
It teaches us to love one another blindly, and to offer ourselves up to those we love in hopes that they will protect it.
It will teach you how to sew your heart back up anyway, when they don't, and to be happy again in spite of them.
It will show you how to be strong by making you weak.
We all start out the same and yet all of us want the same thing as the other, no matter what life can do to us, in the end. Life and then, food, shelter, and security. In that order. We all want the absolute basics that life has to offer and we go from there. One person may climb the corporate ladder to get there, and one person may work hard physical labor his or her whole life. In the end, they are after the same thing.
People who have will always find a way to imagine they deserve more and find a scheme to get it. This is the basis of human entitlement. Having makes us believe we deserve to have more. The man who works as a mechanic his whole life imagines a home of his own, a pool in his yard, and no responsibilities. Some people will tell you this man wants simple things and is a good simple man. The man who sits at a desk his whole life, entering data into a white screen, who can afford his own home and a pool in his backyard and the ability to delegate responsibility will eventually want more. He will want a bigger home and another for holidays. He will want a sauna and a pool and he will delegate the delegaters. He will want more.
They say that if your cup is too full it will spill over. But who's to say when your cup is really full? Who's to say how high your cup will fill before its completely full? How much is enough and how much is too much? Who makes these decisions?
No one.
That's the point.
Many people are born into this world and live in this society or that society, or lack of. No one really knows why they were born into this world, just what nature tells them as soon as they emerge. Live, eat, find shelter, find security. No one is born knowing why we have highways or governments or cars or McDonalds. Someone tells us why or we make our own decisions. Many people accept it and adapt around it. They don't know why they are on this earth, in this world, alive when so many others are not. What's more, many of us don't know why we get up each Monday morning at 8am, put on a suit, and go to work until 5, and then come home every evening. No one is asking themselves "why the fuck am I doing this god damn job that I hate everyday when I don't fucking want to".
Animals want to live, feed, shelter themselves and then secure themselves. Society is borne out of that necessity. Humans possess the only ability among humans to reason, speak a complex language, and achieve superior thought. Humans have the ability to continually mutate their way of receiving these basic needs because of all the amazing talents nature gave to them. Reason, language, intelligence. You can apply this thought all the way down the food chain, just like Darwin said. Survival of the species, applied to the entire food chain. They have succeeded where no other animal possibly ever could. They used their reasoning, language, and intelligence to bring them their basic needs in a constantly ever increasing way. With society. With indoor plumbing and hospitals and the internet, we have used our inherint traits to achieve our nature given needs.
Society, our Government, George Bush, Youtube, CNN, traffic lights, grocery stores, a toothbrush. These are nothing but tools.
When ever a basic desire is met, it is replaced with another desire. Uninhibited access to nourishment will make us gluttons. The homes we live in take away our need to seek out shelter. And through our homes, with weapons and security systems, we make ourselves secure. We have the freedom to want other things, because that is what humans do. We want more because we are entitled to it. If you are starving to death and dying of aids along side your children in Africa, all you want is food for you and your children. Medicine. A place to live. You just want your basic needs met. But once those needs are met, that woman will want more. She will want clothes for her children and herself, an education, her own shelter. That is simple human behavior. We want more. We are entitled to it. Therefore humans are, by nature, insatiable.
The billionaire living on his island in his mansion with every amenity afforded, will not stay happy for long. He will wonder, what is there for me in this life if I have all that I need and nothing to work for? What is the point of living if it's for nothing?
Are humans insatiable, are animals insatiable, because of their very basic need to live? And to survive? Do we want more, do we feel entitled to it, because we are unknowingly making ourselves safer and safer, in the only ways we know how? Through more life, more food, more shelter, and more security?
We all come into this world in the same way. And we don't know Why. Not one single person on this entire earth can claim to know the answer to Why. All any human being on this entire earth is doing is figure out their Why. The same is true for their parents and their parents parents and so on and so forth. Some people claim they know that their religion is Why. But no one can really prove that to you. They have faith in their why. Some people claim that science is why and they will show you how science is the Why. But they can't tell you why science is Why. They can only show you how. They can only have faith in their intelligence and what they feel is true.
Everyone starts out with their basic needs and when their nature given skills develop enough, they are told Why. They are told by their parents, and their governments, their schools, their peers. And when their reasoning becomes high enough, they will begin to form their own Why. And all of those things together gives each individual their own reason. Why am I getting up every day and getting dressed and going to this miserable job? Why am I fighting for my country, risking my life every day and killing strangers? They will formulate their reason for doing all of these things and they will pass this reason on to society in their own way.
Society thrives on Why and our Why will thrive on Society. Or doesn't
Society takes religion and science and makes it better or worse. Our religion and science will make our society stronger or it will make it weaker. Each will either increase or decrease our ability to use our nature given gifts to achieve our basic needs.
In point, no one knows why, they can only formulate their own. You have no more idea what you're doing down in the mail room than the guy 20 floors above you in his Corporate CEO office does. He's just figured out a smarter way to achieve his basic needs.
The two of you came into this world exactly the same. And you both want the exact same thing. Figuring out why, for yourself. You both will find your own way to meet your basic needs.
Yes, almost all of us start out the same. Healthy and normal and full of the potential to do what nature intended us to do. And, no matter what life does to us, how it changes us or what it turns us into it, the long term goal does not change. Adapted or afraid. Warry or open and loving. Whether we hurt our children or nurture them.
We will always, invariably, do what nature intended us to do.
Period.
posted by Lizzae @ 5:12 PM
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