What vulnerability in your life do you embrace? The
vulnerability that I embrace is that I’ve come to the realization
that I am by no means perfect. I have accepted that never in my life will I
ever be the “perfect” human that some believe the human race is able to
achieve. I, on the other hand, think quite differently than this. I recall experiences in my life where there were lots of people trying to tell
how to behave and telling me that I must act like everyone else. I was very young at the
time, so what did I know? Nothing. I knew
nothing and it was because I started at nothing that I drifted away from the
rest as each person does in life. Just think for a second what it would
be like if everyone you locked eyes with was identical to you. What I believe
is that making mistakes brings uniqueness to us all, but how can we
make mistakes if we are perfect? And if we are perfect then there wouldn’t be
many things in this world that we would truly enjoy. Think for a second what being perfect
means, it means being efficient and in order to be efficient we must get rid of
the things that are slowing us down. For me that means that one of the first
things to disappear would be human emotion. I mean what need is there for
human emotion right? Well, as it turns
out it gives a person’s life a factor that others may or may not share. What I
mean by this is that without this factor we are just drones looking for the
perfect way of life. As a kid I was rather violent, but that was because I
didn’t know any emotions that brought joy, I was only able to hurt and to be
hurt. So what happened is that I was put on medication for the behavior, and one day I
took double the amount that I was supposed to ingest; I
became a lifeless drone only able to follow simple orders. I couldn’t think, nor
could I feel any kind of emotion good or bad and at times I couldn’t speak
because I wasn’t able to form the words needed, I would just nod. To me that is
what life will become if we do become perfect, but I believe the human race is
unable to become this because we feel. We laugh and sometimes we cry, we get
angry at the world cursing our existence
and sometimes we are up and about laughing with joy and blessing this world we are on. It could happen
all in the same day and that is what makes life human. To me humans are a
portrait of emotion that can never be replaced or copied. Each piece brings
something new and different to the table, so that we can never expect how it came to be. So all in all being vulnerable is what makes us as humans
so great.
-By Tyler Berg
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