Being Human

            To be human is to be able to think, act and talk like no other animal can here on earth. A deeper meaning is to express emotions and form our own opinions on things. Then see maybe our options change. Learn and educate ourselves in knew things. To create, develop and evolve to make life easier. But even more important to being human is that we come together with other humans and share our own stories and emotions we each other. And when we start sharing, we ask questions. Eventually the questions get bigger and broader. What is the point to life, Is there life after death, Are we alone and so on. Some people spend entire life times trying to solve these questions.

            The best answer man has been able to come up with for these questions is art. Just like everyone's answers to those questions is different, art is also different. There is no real way to answer any of those question or to paint a canvas or draw that blow of fruit from the 8th grade. Everyone has their own personal options and perceptions for the big questions and art. There for art is the best way to help people deal with such daunting ideas. With it people can easily express their own views on life after death or what is ever on their mind. Whether be with paint, pencil, pen, music, ink or any other form of artistic expression. 

            Being an artist is someone who crafts. For me that is a perfectly plated and garnished plate of food. With volume, some negative space and a little bright shaving of a fruit or vegetable on top. And of course for some all they will ever see is a pile of food. But they do not quite understand its beauty and the skill needed to make it. Just like how I do not care for something someone just finished painting and call their master piece. I am not an artist  in the traditional sense, so I do not feel the same over some color on canvas.

           To be a man or women used to have very strict out lines and were to never go outside them. But now thanks to protesting, marching, rioting and picketing there is really no difference in being a man or women. Of course other than the whole reproduction part. But thanks to ground breaking science you can now remove your penis or get boobs if one so chooses too. So really there is not much of a difference anyone, especially when there has become a number of people who were at one point male, then became female and vice versa. 

           This quote we have,"...robbed us of some of our capacity for being human." I believe that is not true at all. To have developed the cognitive thinking we have now just shows how far man has come. Just because we can now look at something an now its meaning or what is does, does not rob us. It just push us to the next step, to perhaps add on to it or make it better. If man becomes complacent with the Mona Lisa, then sure we are robbing ourselves of some emotions and experiences. But we are humans, we are never complacent. We are always replacing the old out dated for the new and improved. We would all still be staring at fire going oooo, ahhhh and freaking out at fire if we were not able to cognitively learn that wow thats hot and hey it does stuff to meat. But because we have evolved our cognitive skills, we can build off what we have absorbed. Then push to improve and better our experiences and further evolve. We do not need to relearn every time we step outside an look round.