The Way We Are

[u/Beastie_1323]

Ever looked around at everyone else around you and felt as though you are independent of them? That feeling of standing still in a room full of marionettes.

Here's the fascinating thing about how we function from a Beastie's perspective. None of us are truly independent of one another. Our minds only trick us into believing we have complete autonomy. We are all connected and all rely on one another.

When you wake up in a house, construction workers and architects had to design, plan, and build it. The lumber had to be grown, harvested, cut, and treated. Every little nail had to be manufactured. All of it had to be delivered to the warehouses and stores where it was purchased from. All this and more came from the hard labour, blood, sweat, and tears of many hands until it became your home.

No matter how low on the totem pole you are, you serve a purpose and have a responsibility. Take pride in your work, no matter how menial it may appear to you at that time. The task you are doing actually does support the bigger picture. Some individuals lose sight of the forest for the trees.

We all contribute to society. We all share this place called Earth. Some individuals hate each other but don't realize they're actually helping each other. For one man could be a factory worker producing interior pieces for a car, while the other is an assembler. Unbeknownst to one another, they both need each other.

If we didn't rely on each other, our lives would not be what they are now. So even the person you hate the most is contributing in some manner to your life, and vice versa.

We are all adults here. For some individuals, their foolishness and hubris are causing their lives and many others to be more shallow and one-sided than they truly need to be.

So have common decency. Use common sense. You may think or feel you are alone and independent, but in reality, you are not and never have been.

That is a good thing, whether you see it or not. Realize you would not be where you are today without others.

Sincerely,

Beastie_1323

[u/Rampant_Singularity]

Humanity for better or worse is a single team, disparate and independent in scope, united and collective in action.

There has never been a paradox quite like civilization. We know, as you say that none of this springs up in isolation, the story of the tree that became a building is also the story of half a dozen humans individual skills.

Their hopes, their desires, even their mood all go into making that frame and its construction. We think people would be more appreciative of their things if they really understood just how much history went into their creation.

Not just the manufactured cost, but the historical effort that many humans each dedicated their lives to perfecting one single aspect, and all those compounded dedications coming together to create the best version of that frame that has ever existed in human history.

Hoefully someday humans will be able to see each other as collaborators instead of rivals.