Meaning of Being Human
To begin with, what is a human? A descendant of an ape? Or a creature sent to earth at the beginning of time to look after the beasts and plantation in the Garden of Eden. Just think about our taxonomical name Homo sapiens, it means a wise man and hopefully giving us that name wasn’t a mistake. Humans, the animals with the most phenomenal brain, capable of the most abstract thoughts possessing the most amazing skill of imagination, are the masters of the animal kingdom. We are almost dominant over nature. We tame the seas, and the land and many other living things but it seems that we take it all for granted.
We litter the land, pollute the air, contaminate the seas and kill many living creatures, and murder is not as much crime as simple betrayal of our kind. Being a human is not only a gift but also a great responsibility. We are here to set a good example to creatures below us, but what do we do, we completely contradict our meaning to this world by showing how easy it is to destroy nature. Being human is being accepted by your own self, your environment, and those who are directly involved within your environment. It means being treated nothing different from persons with other orientation just because some think that they‘re different.
Our identities as humans however are not rooted in one place, our minds and limbs are also stopping from one port to another in no time, too busy to keep pace with breakthroughs, leaving no remorse and trail along the way. These could be the reasons why we, humans have higher risks of experiencing discriminations. However, this is not an excuse for us to allow ourselves to become unaccepted by many especially for a longer period of time because part of being human requires ways to cope up with whatever differences, superficiality and impersonal characters we have in ourselves and in our environment.
Having a feeling of being accepted by our identities is regarded as an incident that’s worth remembering. It creates an outmost importance and it makes us to be temperate towards mockery and become a subject to humility. Needless to say, fear or any of phobias including anxiety is always part of our human existence. Yet this fear just comes without us knowing it. This is but emotion to be treated with equally strong disposition and open mind. Regarding fear as a precautionary measure of avoiding the worse thing to happen is healthy. But too much of it is not commendable. Humans should have to deal with it normally.
Fundamentally, humans have problems. These problems affect their daily endeavors and decision makings that subsequently hinder them to achieve our goals. The basic human problem is rooted into their own selves . Sometimes, the process of knowing one self and accepting what you can and can‘t do helps you understand your role in the environment that you are working around . This concept becomes a basic problem when we can‘t figure out the things that are needed to be done for us to play a role in our surroundings. This creates an internal crisis that held you back to perform at the best of your capability .
Likewise; humans are not created the same. We have our own differences in almost everything, and that remains an acceptable fact. In such case, we should be able to accept our identities first in order for us to assess and enumerate our own weaknesses and differences. We have yet to see so many things to ourselves before we get to see our surroundings . Once knowing ourselves is done, we may now be ready to accept our changing environment and society. In this way, we might be wondering how the feeling of being accepted might end our seemingly endless human problems like knowing and understanding one self.
But reflecting on many issues confronting humans and discerning what courses of action to take to address to these problems, we should see the need for self-realization. There is no human nature…man is anything else but what he makes of himself’ Jean Paul Sartre. This quote means that a man must invent himself, for he believes that humans are not set with animal instincts and they must create them to stay in good health. He also means that life is always like an unanswered question which must eventually be answered – not by God or religion but only himself. People would rather be wrong than different’ Henry Jacobsen. This quote explains a bit more to me about human nature, meaning that one never wishes to stand out in a bad way and that they rather agree with an untruth than be frowned at for having a different opinion. This plays a significant part in political development, for politicians or dictators take advantage of this and once they have been agreed with by the majority of people, others have no choice but as to also agree. Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected. Josh Billings. This tells me a lot about human nature and everyone’s desire to be agreed with, which proves also that every person needs support and needs to be heard and listened to in a time of need. Even sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds, lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds’ Shakespeare. This quote really shows how even the sweetest or most sweet-looking people could turn sour if they do bad things and when this happens, the people who are supposedly ‘weeds’ or not as beautiful looking appear to be better than those who sin.
On the other hand, the human world possess much more threat than any other kingdom for humans also possess the knowledge – the one which was given to our race by temptation- the knowledge of good and evil which is not present in any other animals it seems, because even the most vicious predators kill the weaker animals only in order to complete their life processes, whereas some humans have everything that they need yet greed or hatred or prejudice provokes them to commit some of the most revolting deeds in history, yet there is still hope for the mankind, for our creator has also provided us with one of the most powerful monitors of all, he has provided us with a conscience. Of course, some people are too rotten to take notice of conscience eating them alive but it’s the only thing that is able to keep this world reasonably in line.
