Just Some Thoughts. Part 5

I'm back again, with even more crazy thoughts. I've recently read some materials, and the overall theme of said materials happened to be courage. Now, if you look it up, the definition of courage, at least on Bing, means the ability to face something that frightens. That got me thinking about how courage ties into fear and survival. Over the years and over several assignments, I've learned that fear is an emotion known to all organisms with a slight consciousness. Fear is not only an emotion, but also the means to survival. So, if fear does not exist, that means courage would not either. And since that survival is dependent on fear, without the need to survive, courage would not exist. Therefore, the existence of courage goes against what people now might think. Some, at least the people around me, say that we don't live to survive, but rather we live for a different purpose. So, courage means that humans haven't evolved beyond living for survival. Humans have achieved consciousness beyond the average mammal, but we still have not reached our full potential, as a species. We are still bound by our primitive selves, and I do not think that we are capable of reaching beyond this shackle.

When I realized this a few days ago, I thought this might be something amazing. We've just made it so that we live at a heightened sense of survival. Writing this makes me sad, and I often wonder if it's even worth living. But there is a beauty in the way that we live, hopeful that the fight for survival will be better than yesterday. That's why people keep going, the hope, the promise that tomorrow will be better than yesterday.

Thank you.