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Yoshikko March 22nd, 2014 4:54 PM

I don't know it's just strange to think about, it's not as if you could be like "oh I'm glad I am this tree or this dog instead"...When I was little I used to like thinking about how strange it was that I was born as a human, when I could have just been born as a sheep or a towel (??!) instead, I don't really know where that came from.

The only thing I don't really like about being human is that I feel like people constantly feel like they have to achieve something, like there is something they have to do before they can die, before they qualify or feel complete. Like their life is worthless/meaningless by default and only after achieving that great something, they can finally feel worth living. Not just a few people but it's like our whole race is just built on this idea, we always want bigger and better, like it's never enough, it's not enough to have reached the moon we need to give our life more meaning and reach even further, we have to do this and that, you know what I mean? And thinking about that, ironically, makes it seem just absolutely pointless. This might sound cliché also but it's like trying to reach the pot of gold and just never getting there, that's what it feels like people are doing. But I try not to think about it too much, I think people have achieved great things too, it's not all bad.

Sage Ebock March 22nd, 2014 5:32 PM

Being a tree would suck so much right now lol. Today, this week, this year, its a good time to be a human. In fact some are calling this new age where we rule the planet "the anthropocene age". Really no better time to be on team homo sapiens sapiens.

LETS PARTY WOOOOO!!!!! lol jk

Ghost Lunis March 22nd, 2014 5:58 PM

While opposable thumbs, intellectual communication, and free will are nice, I would much rather be a squirrel.

Yukimura Tenshin April 16th, 2014 6:54 PM

I enjoy being human presently, but hopefully in this life I can accumulate enough merit to transcend suffering in the human world and become a Buddha with the reason being as humans we have the ability to transcend our suffering(physical & mental) and enter nirvana which is a state of eternal bliss.

So basically when I go through something I don't like I usually have the strength to go through as seeing the key word for every good or bad that happens to you is "impermanence".


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