It's Only Human Nature
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So, I’ve been getting some interesting feedback (aka disputes) about some of my articles (mostly from guys), but the one thing we can all agree on is this: Humans are, by nature, LAZY. There I said it. You can’t argue with that because it’s true. And if you disagree with me, it’s probably because you’re too lazy to admit that I’m right. See how many words just agreeing with me took?
I realised the abovementioned fact (I’m too lazy to re-mention it), after everyone kept talking about the upcoming public holiday weekend. Women’s Day is on Tuesday, 9th August, and for some reason that is beyond all my other poor reasoning abilities, I can’t figure out why Monday the 8th is also a holiday.
Why, dare I ask (not that I’m complaining) is Monday also a public holiday? You can argue that it doesn’t make feasible sense to go to work/school on Monday, skip Tuesday the 9th and continue with that work on Wednesday. But what about all the weekends we have ever had? Isn’t it also fruitless to do work on a Friday, take off Saturday and Sunday, and try to remember on Monday what you were doing?
Humans complain (haha I sound like I’m from a different species) or try to criticise everything that doesn’t make sense – except when it comes to unnecessary holidays. Like I said, I’m not complaining, I’m just amused at how truly lazy a group we are. You can disagree with Obama about his policies, find time to fight with a Pakistani hawker about his prices, and heck you even argue with your mother over allowing you to get ‘hosed’ at the latest party. But you can’t argue with an extended holiday that’s for sure.
There are three ways to make sure you’re definitely a human being, and weren’t raised on the wrong planet like Hellboy or Superman:
1. “It’s only human to want to kill something beautiful…” –
♦ Saw a pretty rose in a garden? Pulled it from the ground?
♦ Gave it to your girlfriend? Broke her heart days later?
♦ Upset because you’re now single? Threw a milkshake on the loser at school?
Those are the 3 simplest ways one man can destroy. Like the Franz Ferdinand lyrics go, “Some say you’re a troubled boy, just because you like to destroy all the things that bring the idiots joy. Well, what’s wrong with a little destruction?” That last line does not involve pulling the plug on my Wii mother!
2. “Laziness is the devil.” – No it isn’t, and here on Earth we have three types of nature: Mother Nature, sexual nature and human nature, of which the latter seems to be more like a freak of nature. But maybe being lazy is a good thing, because if Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Madonna worked as hard as ants/bees did, the world would be a scary place filled with walking Blackberries and Apples, paraplegic robots, and rap songs would be sung by muscular white chicks.
As Adlai Stevenson said (whoever that dude is), “The human race has improved everything except the human race.”
If laziness is the devil, we’re all going to hell. And let me tell you, that’s where all the company is…
3. “Before you point your fingers, make sure your hands are clean.” – Most of the plays kids study in school revolve around the idea of The Human Condition. It’s pretty self-explanatory, but in literature terms it refers to anything that is difficult, painful, and negative, and the endless quest for the meaning of life. Most people (not everybody) tend to notice the bad things first, or think harmful things without the other person having any possible way of finding out. Hey, from what I’ve heard that’s what happens after marriage. Even if you don’t realise it (this is partly true for boys, but it’s not your fault you just don’t understand us women or realise you’re doing it, so you’re excused), something you say as a joke or is meant to be a conversational piece can actually be pretty damaging. Maybe it should be every human being’s right to judge another human being, since we do it so often – whether secretly through gossip, or out right in a hurtful way, as we call it: Being frank.
What about the impending 6th mass extinction that is supposedly going to be manmade? Maybe we’re a doomed species, or maybe destruction is what our purpose is. Consider a king cobra: if it injects you with poison, it’s not exactly fair to kill the creature, because that’s a cobra’s instinct: Defense With Poison. However, humans have evolved far from the excuse of living on just instinct, and we’ve shown that we’re a race full of promise, love, change and determination. It’s time we changed our so-called human nature, before we unfairly take down every other species with us. Human nature is another form of instinct, but as mentioned above, instinct is not what we rely on anymore. We can beat human nature.
Maybe we are a doomed species but if it’s any consolation, all the constant harm we’ve caused to our planet, our family and our country shows one amazing, determined fact about our “Nature”: WE AREN’T GOING DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT.
Damn straight. And that’s why I’m lucky to be part of the Human Race.
I realised the abovementioned fact (I’m too lazy to re-mention it), after everyone kept talking about the upcoming public holiday weekend. Women’s Day is on Tuesday, 9th August, and for some reason that is beyond all my other poor reasoning abilities, I can’t figure out why Monday the 8th is also a holiday.
Why, dare I ask (not that I’m complaining) is Monday also a public holiday? You can argue that it doesn’t make feasible sense to go to work/school on Monday, skip Tuesday the 9th and continue with that work on Wednesday. But what about all the weekends we have ever had? Isn’t it also fruitless to do work on a Friday, take off Saturday and Sunday, and try to remember on Monday what you were doing?
Humans complain (haha I sound like I’m from a different species) or try to criticise everything that doesn’t make sense – except when it comes to unnecessary holidays. Like I said, I’m not complaining, I’m just amused at how truly lazy a group we are. You can disagree with Obama about his policies, find time to fight with a Pakistani hawker about his prices, and heck you even argue with your mother over allowing you to get ‘hosed’ at the latest party. But you can’t argue with an extended holiday that’s for sure.
There are three ways to make sure you’re definitely a human being, and weren’t raised on the wrong planet like Hellboy or Superman:
1. “It’s only human to want to kill something beautiful…” –
♦ Saw a pretty rose in a garden? Pulled it from the ground?
♦ Gave it to your girlfriend? Broke her heart days later?
♦ Upset because you’re now single? Threw a milkshake on the loser at school?
Those are the 3 simplest ways one man can destroy. Like the Franz Ferdinand lyrics go, “Some say you’re a troubled boy, just because you like to destroy all the things that bring the idiots joy. Well, what’s wrong with a little destruction?” That last line does not involve pulling the plug on my Wii mother!
2. “Laziness is the devil.” – No it isn’t, and here on Earth we have three types of nature: Mother Nature, sexual nature and human nature, of which the latter seems to be more like a freak of nature. But maybe being lazy is a good thing, because if Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Madonna worked as hard as ants/bees did, the world would be a scary place filled with walking Blackberries and Apples, paraplegic robots, and rap songs would be sung by muscular white chicks.
As Adlai Stevenson said (whoever that dude is), “The human race has improved everything except the human race.”
If laziness is the devil, we’re all going to hell. And let me tell you, that’s where all the company is…
3. “Before you point your fingers, make sure your hands are clean.” – Most of the plays kids study in school revolve around the idea of The Human Condition. It’s pretty self-explanatory, but in literature terms it refers to anything that is difficult, painful, and negative, and the endless quest for the meaning of life. Most people (not everybody) tend to notice the bad things first, or think harmful things without the other person having any possible way of finding out. Hey, from what I’ve heard that’s what happens after marriage. Even if you don’t realise it (this is partly true for boys, but it’s not your fault you just don’t understand us women or realise you’re doing it, so you’re excused), something you say as a joke or is meant to be a conversational piece can actually be pretty damaging. Maybe it should be every human being’s right to judge another human being, since we do it so often – whether secretly through gossip, or out right in a hurtful way, as we call it: Being frank.
What about the impending 6th mass extinction that is supposedly going to be manmade? Maybe we’re a doomed species, or maybe destruction is what our purpose is. Consider a king cobra: if it injects you with poison, it’s not exactly fair to kill the creature, because that’s a cobra’s instinct: Defense With Poison. However, humans have evolved far from the excuse of living on just instinct, and we’ve shown that we’re a race full of promise, love, change and determination. It’s time we changed our so-called human nature, before we unfairly take down every other species with us. Human nature is another form of instinct, but as mentioned above, instinct is not what we rely on anymore. We can beat human nature.
Maybe we are a doomed species but if it’s any consolation, all the constant harm we’ve caused to our planet, our family and our country shows one amazing, determined fact about our “Nature”: WE AREN’T GOING DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT.
Damn straight. And that’s why I’m lucky to be part of the Human Race.