The absurdity of evolvement
And how we can overcome it!
Hey you! Remember when we were just five? Just kids who looked to give hope to humankind, so sweet and innocent!
But as we blossomed, we got lost and felt alone because our guardians socially acted reckless and irresponsible. They parented us without grace and understanding. Everything was a lecture to them with tough consequences, that eventually we felt constantly talked down and rarely listened to!
Some of them loved us conditionally and we were like feathers floating in a breeze of isolation. They let us watch the domestic violence and feel insignificant in our own homes. Remember when we lacked someone to talk to amidst all? When we questioned God why we were even born in insurbodinate families!
Numbed with deep pain, some of us resorted to alcohol and drugs as if to forget. A portion of us rebelled when we felt we could face the world on our own. Most of us stayed even when we were at the end of the rope- quietly promising ourselves that we would be better!
We’d be better humans, better parents, better siblings, better wives, better husbands!
We opened up to friends about our past saying it wasn’t that rosy but our future would be better. We’d make the world a better place, for whatever mistakes our predecessors made, were their choices not bilogical, or so we affirmed.
However, as time elapsed, we didn’t change. In fact we became worse. We weren’t any different.
We didn’t make the best versions of ourselves. We decided to take on our guardians darkest traits letting history define us. We got depressed and took good people life graced us with for granted. We got eating disorders. We used relationships for sexual pleasure. We had affairs with everything and had kids without a necessary firm foundation. We got trapped in social media clout faking life, and posting memes to attack our friends. We didn’t forgive those who wronged us but excitedly waited for karma. We made fun of people we deemed unfit.
In a nutshell, we gave ourselves a repeat of our childhood traumas. We comfortably conformed with what peers dictated trend and became remarkable bullies.
And we ruined it! The attempt to be better people, we called quits on it!
Yes, the world has evolved overtime! It has boomed in technology and economics for instance… But that’s the world!
Have we evolved individually?
You know what? Maybe psychology is right after all! Maybe deep down we’re just creatures wired to be bad, idle, selfish and vengeful. Just moral hypocrites!
Or maybe we aren’t!
Because what if we beat the odds of uniformity and became more open-minded about life? Took a step to personal improvement by becoming less exploitative and manipulative? Inflicted humility more than cruelty? Tried to make some positive impact in the lives of those around us? And just did good to everyone even when it’s not returned?
For folks, we’re now faced with a choice- to return to old patterns or take a leap into a radical change and make ourselves better than those before us.
