LIFE

 Life is but a particle of dust suspended in a sunbeam.  *Carl Sagan

 

Some treat it with reverence, most neglect to care.  Programmed to procreate, the practice makes it unquestionably enjoyable. The product, a replica of a better self is the trophy.  A masterful way to reduce our failings, is by giving a second chance to redo it again with our trophy offspring. 

 

And then we mess up. 

 

Any kind of control over another human, in perfecting our failings, results in a complete break-down.   Often repeated throughout history, oppression only perpetuates chaos, causes deep suffering sometimes resulting in the oppressed becoming the oppressor and so the cycle continues. 

 

Pick any continent from the blue planet seen from the galaxy; the green terrain of forest jungle pitted against stretches of dry empty desert interspersed with huge areas of sapphire-blue demarcations has infinite beauty.  The envy from other galaxy passerby’s, plus mankind’s pride of belonging, gives no indications of borders, race, linguistics, nations, religions. Yet humanity can easily be destroyed by nationalism, ideology, and skin color. These are our hidden personality traits.

  

“We’re born into a losing struggle”. * Christopher Hitchens

For many people born less fortunate, they are born into an even worse losing struggle.

 

I often wondered why we were created with horrendous flaws, only to realize that our only salvation was to be controlled by an imagined higher order, setting rules and guidelines to follow, in order to be an exemplary human.  It bears a huge question mark on what misogynous creator, that without the rules, homo sapiens are reduced to being a voracious animal, killing, taking over territory, oppressing the lower orders, and then satisfying their appetites on the spoils of war?   

 

Time has changed nothing:  

Intellectual evolution fell short.

Inventions propagated laziness.

 

And yet we beg for democracy. Justified in anger that controllers deny equality. Not realizing that we are born unequal with varying degrees of imperfections.  Leaders become grazed by body and soul wounds, in fighting over strength or deceit in order to win. 

 

Five thousand years of Ancient history of Egyptian, Roman and Greek empires are read and philosophized for successes and failures of the past in order to lead future modern civilization, paralleled with several science inventions in the last 200 years to a better life. It has unfortunately not led us far; we still fight, use dirty tricks to destroy evidence of deceit, falsify and lie until it becomes a natural personality trait, that requires a psychologist or body language expert to detect.  

 

The list of achievements to balance our failures has many "yets". Geniuses are born to propel us into space, yet still on the first gear of speed. Artificial intelligence on the brink of daily usage yet questionable on it attributes. Mountaineering to the highest point on earth and submarining to the bottom of the ocean are  applauded for pioneer and human strength yet the legacy remains with many frozen climbers left as statues; and those imploded at the ocean bottom.  We have excelled in the human evolution to extend our lifespan with advanced medical knowledge, yet remain careless to treating it with reverence.     

 

 

And we still lie, cheat, kill, destroy, and invade.  Nothing more than the dust suspended in a sunbeam.      

 

       IF THIS IS YOUR LAST DAY ON EARTH