Who Are We Really?

“…humans have fought each other throughout their existence. Such a waste of the gift of life on our planet.”

I am so tired of those who make such cynical assertions about how useless, hopeless, selfish and finally self-defeatingly monstrous are human beings.

People have also loved and created and protected and cherished each other and the Earth. We have dreamed nightmares but also visions of beauty and improved our knowledge of the Universe even as we have deepened our faith in the human connections with the spiritual possibilities.

We are a complex species, not all the same.

We are a community, a family with infants, adolescents, adults and elders: children, parents, grandparents with different levels of intellect and emotion, different abilities and imperatives. We have mood swings, pathologies, divergences of the senses. We have tons of things to work on, to fix, to adjust, to make room for.

No, we are not perfect, but we human beings have such astonishing potential to make things better. It has also been historically true that we’ve often waited to the very last moment before total disaster to apply ourselves to finding a solution, and we have found one!

That’s also who we are.

_{11/2024 by CL Redding}