Being Human Part 1
Throughout the documented history of human existence man has always lived to both cherish and detest the journey of life. At times the journey of life proves to be a great opportunity wherein, the human being besotted by his desires and the instinctive call of his senses, seeks to indulge incessantly at every single point in his life. Conversely, at times, when he encounters abject failure and the subsequent realization of his follies, he starts to question the choices that he once made in his life. Whatever the result may be, in the end we realize that the choices that we make defines us as human beings. It is the choices that we make that separate us from animals and give us the definitive edge over other primates in the evolutionary process. It is our choices that in the end truly make us human…and being human is necessarily a good thing; or is it?
As I sat there in my bedroom, silently self-introspecting on this one question that had unceasingly propped up in my mind over and over again, I realized that the human being in the end was nothing but an embodiment of diversified weaknesses. Through the years, I had often seen many individuals go through a relentless streak of instinctive self-indulgence, foregoing all bonds of friendship and brotherhood. It was not something that I had noticed at that very moment; but now as I sat meditating in solitude, I realized that a human being besotted with desire, was surely beyond all recall. It was then that I truly realized the overbearing power that instincts wielded upon human existence. The human being is only too glad to shed away all sense of morality to satisfy that one desire that spurs from his instincts. Thus as I reflected upon that thought I realized that the human existence, which was constantly rooted in the instincts was hardly a boon. Even though the society in which, the human being exists has set in place its own norms and regulations, the human instinct hardly bears cognizance to the fact that there is a sense of reasonable restriction laid upon it. Desire that spurs from this instinct has no conscience and it has no sense of morality or consequence. It is only a desire that is deep-rooted in instinctive self-indulgence. In the end, human desire is directed solely to one purpose; that of self-gratification.
As I reflected upon this, I realized that being human necessarily meant being utterly selfish in thoughts, words and acts. I realized through my own observations that the human being; in the end had only one undercurrent to all his actions in society; that of self-gratification and self-enrichment. While the sense of self-enrichment was an attribute that was derived from self-preservation, which in itself is of paramount importance, the sense of self-indulgence and self-gratification in the end superseded all other senses and made the individual blind to all but his own ‘self’.
Thus the human being ‘evolved’ through the ages, knowing not what he truly was; as he incessantly burned his loftily endowed intellect and intuition in the fires of his own desires. In the end, the only thing that the human being ended up coveting was his desires; the fulfillment of which would yield him only shallow pleasure and not immeasurable bliss…
Was that what being human truly meant? Was the human existence nothing but an exercise in futility?
…to be continued…
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October 30, 2009 9:36 pm
