What it Means to be Human
'What does it mean to be human?' is a very broad question that could have many different answers.
Being human means being imperfect, making mistakes that sometimes you learn from, sometimes you don't, and having flaws and learning to accept them. And I think that one of the most significant realities of our existence is the journey between pain and ecstasy that we as humans experience throughout our lives. We all feel pain, we all feel ecstasy. We also all cause others to experience these phenomena.
The thing is, our existence and lives would be mostly pointless without the existence of others around us. Because of the emotions we cause others to feel, and the emotions that others cause us to feel, there must be a point of enlightenment in the human life where we come face to face with imperfection, and become comfortable with the realness of it. There is no way in human existence to escape that vast range of emotion between pain and ecstasy, or to avoid causing other people to feel those things. We cannot please ourselves or others 100% of the time, but that's really the just of living isn't it? Our deepest pain causes our greatest ecstasy. Human existence will forever be imperfect, and that's okay.
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ReplyDeleteI like that you have pointed out that humans are imperfect, and that it is all right to make mistakes. It is an intrinsic part of our existence. After all, how can we learn to stand up straight if we never stumble and fall? It is particularly notable that you have prefaced your post with an open sentence of sorts. It leaves room for differing opinions.
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