Human life is fragile.
We like to take the human life for granted because we think of all of the opportunities we now have as a human race. We look at the mistakes we make, the atrocities we commit, the choices mis-made.
You know, I like to think that someday I could be immortal so that I could keep living, and keep learning in gathering wisdom. Hopefully, to apply it to our people: to help the young ones grow better and stronger than they’ve ever been able to before; to give solace to the ones who are older who have been hurt and damaged by pain, by war.
I’d love to be one of the Elders that cares for our race and helps bring us to better understanding of our true humility and grace, our power, our strength – to reach and access our true capabilities.
I worry that if I were granted immortality that I would see other immortals become jaded, and it would just be the human struggle for power and resources and control at others’ expense – just on the larger scale. Now we’ve got humans that can live forever vying to always stay in control: how is that different than now?
But it seems to be a good dream to have: to want to be there on the side of Nourishment.
We have such great potential as creatures that contain both animal instinct, and something other: Human Thought. Human capacity to analyze and reason. We are unique. I don’t think that anywhere there’s a species like us.
There may be other advanced civilizations out there in the universe – and maybe we actually come from one of them. But, what we have evolved from and into now is something rather unique, meant to be cherished, meant to be cultivated to have our best attributes drawn forward to stand shining in the sun.
To have the cloud of oppression and waste, and malice, and greed – all the negative things that ego brings to us, lifted off of us – just that burden, lifted…what great things could we achieve?
Ego itself is not bad, but, it’s bad how ego can become abusive.
And I believe that if we nourish what imbalanced ego from the beginning – brought it back into its center – that it could be one of our greatest assets, giving us the will, the knowledge, the determination to manifest our own destiny beyond anything we’ve ever dreamed.
Spoken Word: https://soundcloud.com/user-213139500/a-case-for-humanity-42121
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