What It Means To be Human To Me

     What it means to be human can be answered in many different ways. A human is a lump of skin, bones, tissues, and organs that come together to form this amazing organism that has evolved and developed into the earth through history. It is amazing to think how far our species have come since the dawn of time. We have evolved through millions of years to get to our current beautiful form of life through advancements in technology,  education, and challenging how far we are able to push ourselves as humans and we now know so much about ourselves as a species that it is hard to even grasp our minds around. We have been categorized into communities and formed to the culture we have been brought into..but what it means to actually be a human is something we still don't really understand.

    To be human means to be special and unique in each and every one of our own individual ways. No human has the exact same genetic blueprints or the exact same life or thoughts or feelings. Each and every one of us is unique and beautiful in our own way. Being human has never been easy. We all grow up and most of us face some sort of tragic or distressing events in our life that somewhat shape who we become and that have formed our unique personalities that define who we are and where we stand in society. We all have unique skill and a specific purpose and to be human means to fulfill that.

  Being human means to create. I believe that a humans purpose is to leave some kind of imprint in the world behind them. We may create life. We may create new advancements in technology. We may create and generate new ideas. We may create art or music, but in one way or another very human is building up a legacy that they will leave behind in this world someday. Art helps humans confront these issues by letting us express our mind and feelings into a physical form. The imagination, and creativity runs from the deepest parts of our brains, through our hands and into reality. Art is a way to bring idealism to reality. It connects us in a way that nothing else quite can.

  To be human means to feel. It means to feel pain, or love, or excitement, or embarrassment or anger. Everyone feels emotions on the inside that reflect who we are on the outside. We all make mistakes, and we all feel these emotions at one point or another, no matter what for we come in. No matter what color we are or what gender we are or what ability/disabilities we may have, we are all composed of the same element.  Every living human feels emotion that define who we are. The quote "Our insistence on cognitive knowing may have already robbed us of some of our capacity for being human" I think means that we should look more open-mindedly at things. we are so determined to find answers and give concrete definitions, and form ourselves to a set standard that we are losing touch for the actual meaning of life. We should stop picking and defining ourselves and just be human! There is so much abstractness for what a human is and what it is capable of doing and we may never find that out so we should live in the moment.