Well sorry that this post is probably not going to be as exciting as others, but from now on Tuesdays are mine so if you want to read the philosophical ramblings of Jesse Mitchell they are here.

Humanity!? What has the term come to mean? Once being human meant nothing more than trying to survive. In this new day and age, though it has begun to change. Into what? Humanity is slowly evolving into a species that is barely even conscious of survival and ideas of life focus only on what is wanted, when once the focus was on need instead of want. People are coming to the point where the necessities of life are so abundant that they are not even recognizable. Luxuries are becoming so easily accessible and varying that people are constantly wanting more than enough. They are also finding new inventive and horrific ways of reaching to fulfill personal desires. People are abandoning family ties, relationships are almost pointless with divorce rates soaring. What are humans becoming?

Once humanity thrived on the land, the world, and its resources. Now humans "live out of their suitcases, cars, offices." People thrive on the unhindered wanting of each other. "I want more money, I want a better car, I want a better house, I want perfect health, I want crazier entertainment, Truly as the old cliche goes "I want this, I want that." or better said "I am human so I am entitled to everything and anything I want no matter what." When Thomas Jefferson wrote that people have the rights of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, I wonder if he would have ever perceived that humanity could reach the point where life and the pursuit of happiness contrasted each other. When pursuing happiness means hurting yourself and other people around you?

Who is to say what is too far? Who gets to say this is reaching a harmful place for myself and others? Is regulating this a form of communism. You are can no longer be in charge of what makes you happy.

Where did the good old days go? Do people even understand that concept "the good old days." When people say everything was simpler, when life had less stress and death, where people not only considered their own families but also their neighbors as something worth treasuring. We regard technology with the highest esteem but it is truly only destroying who we are by making us want to work less and be less. We are doing less and less and allowing other things to do everything for us.

So here is a big question. What makes us human? Is it reaching a point where we do nothing and live with the greatest luxuries of all time? Or is it working with our hands? Or challenging our minds to the fullest extent? Is it loving others or is it loving ourselves? What makes us human? Are humans meant to be fast paced and stuck in offices or are they meant to live "off the fatta da land?" Are we meant to live simple lives or complicated ones? How do you want to be human? That thought is the one thing that will never change. Since we are humans we have the choice.

Personally I think it is time for "A new way to be human."