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2002-12-13 05:23:13 (UTC)

The Dragon’s Daughter

What is it that prompts humans’ lust for one another? Why
do we feel the requirement for anyone at all? From birth we
may have been taught that humans can make it all by
themselves, but the fact is that if a baby were to get no
attention in its first months of life, it will die. It
could have all the food and care it needed; nevertheless,
without this interaction it will pass away.
Humans are not intended to be solitary creatures. We didn’t
evolve that way, or if you’re religious, God didn’t intend
for us to be alone, for if he did, why would he have
created Eve for Adam? I’ve been thinking a lot about the
many mysteries of life—more specifically human emotions,
and I’ve come to the obvious fact that we’re all meant to
be together. Even someone who has dedicated his or her life
to isolation still craves human companionship. When
someone’s desire is not relationship, but instead, perhaps,
work or study, that doesn’t change the fact that this
person main drive for meaning in his or her life.
The results of my findings are this: a man needs to find a
woman, and a woman needs to find a man, someone as
different from them as they are capable of. They need to
reproduce and have children, raise them in their images,
and watch their children do the same thing, generation
after generation. This way, when you expire, you have solid
proof that you have achieved immortality. Even if you die,
you have been woven into the great fabric of human life and
that can never be undone.
For a man whom does not want companionship from a woman,
for a woman whom wants no companionship from a man, this
does not exclude them from the deepest human desire, the
desire to be an irremovable part of the human race. The
necessity for interaction is found in all of us. In our
genes, our life force, the craving for affections is the
one thing that makes us the same. No matter where you are
or who you are, you are the human race; a species that
evolved from every other on the planet to be aware of these
thoughts.
Other animals just perform this ritual without much
hesitation, though the female will always go for the more
evolved male, thus they produce offspring with these
evolved traits and the survival of the species is improved.
It is no different for us; these basic instincts thrive in
all of us and will be the driving force until we die off.
Sex isn’t what this force is, of course. Sex can be altered
in any wanted way, and is. It’s not just the aspiration to
bear children, as many people can never have that, but they
can still be woven into the fabric. What I’m talking about
is a deep hunger to find a person and make life, make a
relationship, two unlike creatures to become, as best as
the can, one.
Even if they are cut off from this needed way of life by
one way or another, by one of the twists of life that
somehow come up and turn his or her wanting away from this,
they only think they’re turning away from it. The fact is,
it will burn even stronger inside them, and it makes them
irate, grouchy, sad, and they don’t even know why, or if
they know, they wont acknowledge the fact, they deny it,
and it could eat them up inside.
These feelings that we all have are what separate us from
animals, this requirement to find someone to be with is the
strongest impulse there is, shallow as it may seem, it is
still the truest thing I have ever encountered. This energy
for life is, as I believe, the meaning of life.

-Dave!




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