What is the biggest challenge you will face in the next six months?
What Does It Mean To Be A Person?
People are interesting because we have the Body of a stupid animal and the Spirit of a higher being. This makes us both finite and infinite. Our Mind is what bridges these two contradictory aspects of our Being, and our Will is born from their coming together.
Our Mind is finite in the sense that it takes up a finite Space & Time and functions as a result of its physical Mechanisms (the Brain), but it is infinite in its capacity for Imagination. A finite Mind can somehow comprehend Infinity. Our Imagination, in a sense, can interact with Infinity, allowing us to transcend our physical limitations.
We are very much able to fall into the traps of the world, but at any moment, we are able to overcome these traps through our own Willpower. An animal is ruled by its physical Need and Desire, and therefore is controlled by them – nothing more than a slave to the physical world. Though, a Person is able to recognize something greater than the physical Present and actively pursue it at the risk of their own safety and comfort. What appears foolish to an animal is seen as wise to a Person.
I believe we are born animals and become Persons as we mature and interact with reality. This is reflected in the development of our Mind. The process of transforming from an animal to a Person would be what we call “becoming Self-Aware.”
However, it seems like many of us forget what it means to be a Person as we continue to age, or maybe try to reject the responsibility that accompanies being a Person – something that is more than an animal. We lock away the part of our Mind that lets us be a Person. We once again become slaves to physical Need and Desire.
[Post Essay Thoughts/Add-Ons]
• Empathy is a requirement to be considered a person. A being who is unable to experience empathy is lesser of a being, whether evolutionary or mentally. A being that rejects its gift of empathy is even less of a being than those unable to experience it.
• I don’t believe that personhood is limited to humans. Humans just have the greatest potential to become a person. I’ve met many “animals” that possesed more qualities of a person than some humans I’ve interacted with.
▪︎ Immortality is achieved when our will transcends our finite and physical bodies. It continues to have an impact on the physical world even when our physical bodies cease to exist. This is what it means to become a legend.
• Maybe it’s unfair to call our bodies “stupid animals.” They may not “think” in a way we consider intelligent, but they have a fundamental understanding of the natural laws that our minds never will. Our minds must learn how the physical reality works/behaves, but our bodies naturally experience and channel the physical world at its foundation.
2 – Found My ñü∿§elf Getting Lost
never have I ever been
afraid, of getting
Lost, because
I Am
the ØИΣ and
only Whö even can
ever find my
ñü∿§elf
since I’ve
always Found my
ñü∿§elf
up ∿ down &
OverAndover, again
each and every single Time
I've ever tried, even
when I've had
to drag my
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away, from
his hiding place
kicking and screaming
♡Sugar☆World☮ 