I found these little thoughts in my gmail drafts while I was cleaning it out last week, and didn’t want to just throw it out so thought I’d toss it on here incase it actually means something to someone! I don’t really remember writing it, but I guess I did when I was back in my deep thought blog writing stage many many moons ago hahaha

Anyways, enjoy!

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What is it to try and change a man?  Is it to make them see what blinds them?  Or perhaps to the close doors to where their dreams lie? How can you ask someone to follow a path of your desire without running  the risk of tearing down a bridge to what they might truly desire most?

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Reality is a most harsh creature, one in which we’ve evolved a seeming necessity of savagery for survival.  Why is that? Ingrained in each of us is the capability for such a range of character.  I’d like to think that we’ve progressed into civility, but that seems so misconstrued upon further reflection.  Look at the natural world around us.

There has been a shift.  In the animal world, creatures fight others of their own kind for territorial reasons.  An obvious comparison is made with humans today.  But in addition to that, there is also jealousy, greed, hate, religion, ignorance, manipulation; all these things strike against making a case for civility.  A so-called self aware mind has made us so self-important that we forget, we lose our connection to those around us, though not just humans, but to all creatures.  We are poisoning our world, destroying hundreds of millions of years of precious evolution.  That preciousness that has led to our own self being, my own self being.  The mere thought of the countless improbabilities to bring any single life into being is astounding, yet we ferociously and consistently rip it out.  So can you say we are really the rulers of the earth or just a mere obscene mistake?

But what of our redeeming characteristics.  Surely they must construct some support for which to lay our tired souls.  What is it that may separate us from other creatures.  It is hard to find an attribute that we have that cannot be found in our animal kin.  What differs is that though examples of our kinder emotions can be found scattered in various amounts among different species, it is within us that all of them lie, even if not shown by everyone.  And not only that, but our minds have allowed us to expand, to evolve our benevolent traits to a higher level.  We have raised our character to a higher plane of existence.

We can hope for the good, for the kind, for the heart to guide us, but is this a false premise? Perhaps, but anything less than that hope would place our kind into a spiral of despair.  So I know I for one will maintain my ideological desires for the forward progress of civility and thought for our species.