We Are Humans Afterall

Have it ever crossed your mind about how we see things the first time? I mean, when we were just born and through our blurry eyes, we saw the outline of faces. How do we know those that we saw were faces? How did we react?

I've been having this thought for a few days now. It must be a shock of our lives (well, the whole one hour of our lives), to see things moving bobbling up and down. Smiling faces, going goo-goo, gaa-gaa in front of our face.

What was it that I was thinking when I saw things for the first time. I was walking to work few mornings ago, where I looked at a tree while allowing the word 'tree' to fall away in my mind. I was looking at it as a tiny child must do, without putting a name to it. At first, I became confused. That was a funny looking object. Suddenly, there seemed to be an energy in the tree that I hadn't noticed before. I became curious. Now that the word tree gone, I became aware of the life force which had been there, but I took no notice of it before.

What if, everything that we knew all our lives, we try to see it for the first time. Try to remove the labels on them. All the preconceptions that we had about things around us, while a tree supposed to look like a tree, we never really appreciate the existence of the tree.

This morning, while I was on the bus to work, I was looking at the passengers around me, and try to un-label them. I saw funny looking objects moving about. What if we were just a blob of tissue, with no arms or legs. How would we move? Probably the same way as snakes... slithered about.

What if we look at those around us the same way. Un-label them. Try to look at them like we saw them for the first time. Strip them off their characters and attitudes and their bad habits. Erase the preconceptions that we have about them. Will they be any better? Will they be any prettier? They might.

And from there, we select the best characters, best attitudes and best behavior and put them back into those people. Take away all the bad weeds, and see them as these new people. Will that be better? It would. But it would be plastic. It would be fake, like the Grade A LV bag that I bought in Thailand. All nice and pretty but with no essence. Non-authentic. Imitation. Counterfeit. Copy.

But then, we were made by God the Great Creator, with intellect, needs and desires.
Those attributes complete us as human, men and women.

If we were made with only desires and needs which constitute to greed, we are no better than primates. The only difference is that primates protect their territory, their families. With no intellect, they don't need to think of wrong and right, they only get what they need and what they desire. They don't go around blaming anyone for what wrongs or right they did.

As human and with the intellect that was bestowed upon us, we think too much. What if this, what if that. Suddenly, envy and jealousy creeps into us like wild fire. Afterwhich, we start to bad-mouth others. Why? Because they are happy and we are jealous of their happiness.

My point being, even how hard we try to sieve those bad attitudes and characters, and see them with only smiles and all sincerity, in the end... we are only humans. What makes men and women ?
SEX.