Life, Itself

Humanity has never fell short of exploring, it's how we dominated the planet. We explored, we conquered and we spread our ideas, beliefs and teachings throughout the last 30,000 to 50,000 years. With that, we're still a relatively young species when compared to the rest of the cosmos of reality. With all our advancements, we're still learning to this day about our planet and where we TRULY come from...

I was raised on Christian beliefs; a mix of baptist and, later in life, non-denominational. My background in religion is nothing short of solid. I'm a preacher's kid of my father, his father, his father, and so on. Most of my family, on both of my parent's sides are either singers, praise leaders, pastors, ministers and/or worshipers of Christ. With these beliefs comes an understanding, at it's core, that there is something greater in the world than one's own self. A power beyond our understanding and comprehension, at least for now. I do believe that sometime in the near or far future we will come to enlightenment of why and how we are here; rather it be because of a deity(ies) or because of a chance mix of the right elements of life.

What I do know for sure, though, is that we are here and we are learning for a reason! A reason that could only be to understand ourselves. As human beings we are life incarnate; we live, we grow, we experience and we die. It's really that simple. Such a simple cycle and it's been working in our favor, and hopefully will continue to do so for eons. The average person looks to the future with hope and promise, and that drives us in our current state of everyday life and society in general. Humanity's past, though, is another state of thinking altogether; it was all about survival!

At a primal level, we're built and breed to survive. Caves, fire, food, scavenging, hunting, gathering, mating, inventing, farming, cultivating, expanding and so on is our way of carrying on. Our ancestors did it for thousands of years before us, and there are even folks in this day and age that continue to do so, rather they're homeless or they want to survive on the land. Theoretically, if we lost everything that we take for granted in our current society, such as electricity; these skills would kick in for us and we return to the simpler things in life. Not to suggest that the simpler way of loving would be without repercussions; millions of people would starve, freeze, lose life-saving equipment, etc, My point is, though, that we carry on; because I believe we are meant to. We're here to learn and explore who we are, and who we are is life, itself.

We strive to discover our true origin and purpose. Humanity is the manifestation of the universe trying to figure itself out. Let's just suppose that humankind is here because of a creator; now, this creator would have to come from somewhere within a reality; somewhere within this life-space. Even if the being that created humanity was from outside our universe or reality, said-being would have to have a beginning of it's own. It would have had to have been given an essence of life. It would be a part of life, able to recreate life; much like a man and woman creating life. Life begets life; and it always will!

(This post is a work in progress...)