Blurring Boundaries- Humanity, A lost Cause?

After some three and a half billion years of life’s evolution on this earth, and after almost two
million years of hardships, extinctions and climate changes, a brand-new species came into the
picture, apparently as a surprise. It was us. Until then our ancestors had lived peacefully and
sustainably with one another. But soon there was only us, keepers of one thing that gave us
extraordinary power over the world and everything else alive. That one thing was, “Humanity”.
If you can surely understand one thing, then it is that you exist. Even if the world was a dream
or an illusion, it would still need you to be dreaming or hallucinating it. And if you recognize
nothing else about yourself, surely enough you recognize that you have a mind, one perspective
on the world, one integrated attentiveness.
Our modern, suburbanized life is the result of lack of understanding of the human kind. The
absence of this consistent portrayal of the human kind that divides humanity for thousands of
years, where humanity is nothing but the character of being human; the unusual idea of man,
by which he is known to different creatures, the various emotions that he feels and expresses.
Love is when you're pleased by the other person's happiness. It's when you desire the best for
the other person. Care is to show kindness and concern towards other. Compassion is
permitting ourselves to be touched by suffering and experiencing the motivation to assist, ease
and stop it. Having said that, all of these humanitarian characteristics, one might think must be
very common, and being humans of today must come effortlessly.
However, you recognize what's not effortless? Hate. We tend to teach others that it's okay to
hate, as long as you hate what I hate. We tend to hate others for his/her skin color. We tend to
hate others because of what they have selected to worship. We tend to hate people who have
too many opinions. We tend to hate others from completely different countries with historical
stereotypes. We tend to hate others who enact violence but ultimately decide to answer it with
more violence.
What saddens me foremost is that this piece of writing will virtually be of almost no interest to
several of us and if it is the argument raised will follow the question of: “What is there to do?
that’s the way things are”. It takes over more than words to reach one’s consciousness, to bear
in mind of one of his own being and also the power, one soul holds in making a difference.
But there’s a twist. When everyone’s ‘humanity’ had become inherent and intrinsic, certain
people still got to be more truthfully be known as humans than others. Because the cycle of
humanity grew to target the helpless, the danger that we would slip back to a semi-human or
non-human state seemed more real than ever before and so justified demands for an ever
more complex and hearty ideology of ‘the human’.
It is a beautiful contradiction of boundaries. We would like to be familiar, and conjointly need
to be safe. We tend to crave both intimacy and protection. If there’s no will there’s no way. Be
a human, be humane and expand the understanding of the thin line that lies between
supporting humanity and being part of a political and social assembly that makes you believe
that you are helping humanity.
Fortunately, the intricate, ever-shifting nature of our blurring humanity is our added strength.
Therefore, even though these lines within the sand may fade, we can always keep redrawing
them.