If you confront people on the street with this question, you will probably get many irritated looks. Some may not have time to answer this question because they are shopping, go to work or do other things.
Many people live in a reality that revolves around Netflix series, jobs, cars, houses, Tikok, Instagram and Facebook.
But are we humans really damn to live a life that revolves around banal things (invented stories, superficialities, etc.)?
As so often, the answer is that we live in a trade -based society in which such values are promoted and maintained.
But what does it really mean to be a person when we leave out all the social and cultural bullshit?
This question is probably best answered with our story. With the story of us humans.
Where do we come from?
The simplest questions are sometimes the most exciting. I mean, have you ever thought about how it could happen that you live at that moment?
Perhaps you have heard that the universe is 13.8 billion years old and that it continues to expand like a cake dough that opens. Scientists found this out by watching galaxies. These galaxies are not only moving away from us, but also from other galaxies and now the crazy thing comes: at an ever increasing speed.
This must mean that at the beginning the whole universe was concentrated in an unimaginably small 'point' and then started (13.8 billion years ago). The beginning of our universe will also Big Bang called.
With the Big Bang, everything we know was created - matter, space and time.
To think about it alone is so fascinating because it is real. This is not an invented Netflix series, like Game of Thrones, or a film by the Star Wars series or one of the Marvel films - but the reality.
I have already got to know people who do research on complex scientific topics, such as more about the moon Io To find out (one of the 4 moons of Jupiter) and physics or work in gene research, but were nevertheless bored with documentation about reality and preferred to watch cartoons or Disney comedies.
It seemed to me as if you consider the scientific work as a job and do not really understand what you work on ... but back to the history of origin from everything:
With increasing time, gravity (the force that holds us on earth) arises in which simple atoms, such as hydrogen, are merged into more complex (merged). Through huge explosions of the stars at the end of their lives, these new more complex atoms were thrown into space.
After all, fascinating things still formed and shaped through these atoms, such as solar systems and galaxies, black holes and neutron stars, moons and planets.
Planet Earth On which we live emerged 4.5 billion years ago and through a number of complex events (distance to the sun, formation of a strong magnetic field and the atmosphere that protect against dangerous cosmic radiation, Jupiter, who has a protective effect on the earth due to its enormous mass, since large mateorites are more likely to be on it, the moon, the chemical composition of the earth, etc.) are probably 4.1 The first living things were created for billions.
Be aware that all living things that exist on Earth consist of these tiny small building blocks (the atoms).
Overall, everything you see consists of these atoms - including us humans and of course you. The first people then emerged in the course of evolution 6 million years ago and the modern person “Homo sapiens Sapiens” developed about 200,000 years ago.
Here is still a very good video from Kurz that the whole thing brings into an interesting perspective:
What does that mean:
You have probably heard of such facts and you may think that is nothing new.
But if you are thinking about it again and realizing that you consist of tiny small particles - the atoms - which have arisen in dying stars.
When you become aware that you are a star dust and your life is a tiny pixel in a huge picture in this gigantic film of the universe.
If you are amazed that you are part of this amazing universe yourself and can in principle observe yourself, then it puts some things into the right light.
As Carl Sagan said, we are all just people on this pale blue point.
We are all people with strengths and weaknesses, with dreams and destinations, with wishes and needs. Our trade -based society turns us to doctors and police officers, soccer players and managers, IT specialists and carpenters, judges and politicians, teachers and clerks, students and unemployed. But what we shouldn't forget is that we are all just humans. And we are influenced by our environment - that's all.
So don't take your career as a CEO so seriously. If you are rich and have everything you want - several expensive cars, villas, luxury yachts and a lot of money. What then?
Is it really worth buying the new iPhone to be cool?
Is it worth your precious time in jobs that don't make you happy?
Is it worth devoting your time to consumption of more and more things instead of traveling the planet and learning more about the world?
To invest in bitcoins, other coins or stocks instead of helping other people/projects?
To look at football instead of playing football yourself?
Try to please others instead of doing what you really would like to do?
In my opinion, being a person means that the fascinating reality in which we live or at least be aware of it (of like gravity to Black holes, von Neutron stars to our solar system, from the problems of the earth to alternatives to solve them), to know that boundaries, religions, laws and also money are only human inventions, and to be clear about how short and valuable your own existence is really.
Sasha is, for example, a person who is very well aware of it and I can recommend a look at yours Blog to throw where you can learn more about them. Here is a cool video of her in which she explains that the earth is like a prison:
In my life I learned that many people (locked up) are very important in things, places, people and habits with whom they are familiar.
The annual Easter and Christmas, various cultural events, such as carnival, Halloween, Oktoberfest or New Year's Eve, family celebrations, such as weddings, birthdays, etc., going away with friends to get drunk, strongly advertised events, such as the football season or World Cup, the Olympic Games or the Super Bowl. Even these are all human inventions and yes, including events that can bring people together and give joy, but often also forced events that are maintained due to our trade -based society.
Perhaps you think that there will be no culture in the future if these things fade. But on the contrary, when people are no longer forced to have a job and have free time to learn more about the world and to do what they want, then there will be an explosion of opportunities to get to know other people, travel, work together on projects, and very likely we would celebrate other events, such as if an illness was defeated when a new scientific discovery was made or others (for example cosmic) Events that are real and not invented.
