Being Human

The other day I read a post by who knows who questioning why we can't all just be human beings. And if we all just acted like good human beings, perhaps there wouldn't be such disruption in today's society. Perhaps if we just dug into our human nature and stayed out of political sides, we could be better as a whole. In the end, the writer showed exactly how even her own thoughts weren't that of a "good human being". After all, that is a matter of opinion, isn't it?

The blessing and the curse of being human is that we all have independent minds and independent thoughts. Our brains have the complex ability to take in information, choose what we believe and form our own opinions based in the information we have sifted through. This of course means that as individuals we will all have different opinions, beliefs and judgements about anything that happens in society. You could try and keep the politics out of something but not really because no matter what, some will have conservative views and beliefs about issues and some will be more liberal in their beliefs.

You can't look at one side of a story and say that it is wrong. That you are a 100% right in the way you are looking at an angle. You cannot do that because no matter the situation, unless you were there, you were actively in the event, you are getting your information, your facts if you will, from people retelling the story. It is the human telling that story that will give you the angle they see it from and then you interpret it based on the way your own mind leans generally

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As human beings we have the incredible burden of keeping judgement at a minimum until we know all the facts from many different angles. We do not do that, hardly ever. We are quick to judge, quick to point fingers. We do this even when the event that has occurred isn't even something we really need to have an opinion on. I so desparately want to tell people to mind their own business. Because if we didn't all get up in each other's business all the time, we wouldn't have the need or the desire to throw our opinions and judgements around like confetti in a parade, making harmful messes along the way.

I guess, my thought on that post I read about why we can't all just act like human beings, is that we are perhaps spending too much time being human. We are allowing our thoughts, our emotions, and our judgements to poke around where they aren't always welcome. We should rather, quiet our minds, look more internally, not at what is out there. The biggest changes we are all capable of, our within ourselves. Make yourself a better human being and see what comes from that.