Humans & Culture

What separates humans from any other creatures is the ability to think, feel, express and control those thoughts/feelings. Humanity has evolved and developed a lot throughout history, so has our communicational skillset. We have invented means of sending codes all across the Globe with the idea of getting closer to each other and therefore make our lives easier and happier, no matter the distance. We constantly approve the usage of social media in order to strengthen the validation of our social existence, only to realize that at one point we will not exist at all. While this provides us with an astonishing liberty of discovering every corner of the world, our own worlds often seem to be demolished by the overwhelming criteria of successfully contributing to societal norms. Is it that we lost our path to humanity when building out of ourselves machinery strong enough to put up with any pressure, while in fact we were aspiring to become more human? Is it that we lost track of logic when rationalizing even the loudest cry for help only because others classify cries as weakness, not as a sign of true emotional stability The seek for perfection has left us so blinded that we cannot even see how we’ve been playing games by ourselves, yet we never seem to win. We stopped listening to understand, but only to reply. We stopped breathing to live, but only to be admired. How long will it take until we lose the last shred of self worth because we have become so keen on losing everything truly worthy? I could easily just stop holding on to the idea of change, but I refuse to let go of anything which makes me the human that I am. And that is not my weakness, but my greatest strength. But who knows whether my children will feel the same.