On human being

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Sep 9, 2018 · 3 min read

Human is the most complex creature, from every single perspective I take on, still there are remaining pieces left unturned. However, human is the most beautiful walking creature on earth as human could possibly build millions of sophisticated goods for themselves and for other living creatures (e.g. high rise buildings, cars, planes, trains, animal shelters, national parks, etc). What a wonderful place to live in with its horrendous system. Sarcastic, eh?

I was thinking out loud on the other time and rhetorically asking my close friend, “What are we for? Why do we exist? What does set us apart from animals? What humans have are the same jobs to do as animals — we eat, we drink, we seek for foods, we breed — but we are in more complicated form.”

Feeling a bit insulted with these questions is my first human instinct as well. Clearly I am not animal… or perhaps I am just a rational animal? I honestly mulled over those questions for years, though I might overload my brain space with unimportant questions throughout my life, I’d happily thank to my parents who constantly gave me ‘difficult yet deep’ questions when I was kid.

For some reasons, we are sort of similar with animals. Although we do have routine activities like bees which work so diligently collecting nectar from flowers to flowers or cats which scream so hard for attracting other opposite sexual cat partners, we indeed have rational mind for thinking. That is what sets us apart from animals, thus we can navigate our brains and instincts, not just for the sake of filling our basic needs, also for the sake of satisfying our human needs — understandings, knowledge, emotions and thoughts.

However, how super powerful people can be, in my humble and honest opinion, people still can’t replicate exactly the same other humans by empowering the so-called artificial intelligence. It is absolutely marvelous to see bunch of people had decoded and encoded how human brain works in playing Korean chess. But we also see how household assistant robots’ existences aren’t really welcomed in Japanese old-age society. We see that these are lack of emotions at glance, and as humans, we have full range of rich emotions and moral compass that leads our behaviors and attitudes.

Both crucial aspects of our existence have constructed us in a very meaningful way which makes me think so hard: what are we for and why do we exist in this universe?

How insignificant we are on earth, if we have a look on galaxy map. We are just speck of dust in the galaxy. We statistically become number to be counted when we were born and pass away. Though we seem useless and insignificant, who’s willing to waste the only life and just die? Rationally speaking, because I’ve never passed away just yet, I can’t confirm that the afterlife does really exist one way or another. As we are now living this life, so this is the only life we know that it does exist.

The little spot that we eagerly find and loss in the way is where we place ourselves in this universe. That’s the place where we maximize our abilities, knowledge, potentials and understandings to make the place where we live in little bit more civilized, more humanized, more decent and warmer. That’s the reason why we exist in this universe. The best people among us are the ones who are useful for the others. Knowing that I only live once, but if I can live wisely and rightfully, living once will be enough for me.

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