Who is more evolved?

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Hope you all are doing great.

Life was given us a billion years ago, do we know what to do with it?

-From the movie Lucy

This blog hit me as lighting when I was watching a documentary on the national Geographic channel; it was titled world’s deadliest and in that particular episode was about the ultimate abilities of few handpicked species.

The next 30 minutes I watched the most amazing organisms which was beautifully filmed and shown.

Most of these belonged to the sea world mostly everything was shot on the sea bed. The theme or the concept of the feature was to show the different types of techniques these creatures use to catch their prey or attract its mate build their homes and so on.

The amazing part of the feature which I cannot forget is the hammer mantis shrimp, the digger snails and a weird rodent which was derived from species which has ears like a rabbit legs like a kangaroo and nose like a pig! I am not able to recollect the name if I get it will update it.

When I was watching this documentary I felt, we humans are way behind in genetics and the abilities or we can call it super-powers that these animals have we win only in few things like our mind power and the power to control nature to certain extent like lighting a fire or creating ice out of water, or building weapons of mass destruction

We all know ants communicate through chemicals which are called as pheromones; they also use touch and smell with the help of their antenna.

The great advanced human beings talk of superiority and things like these, but I have realised whatever qualities we have developed is from animals, a pack of lioness choose the strongest male as its ate so that the future is safe, the elephants depend on the eldest in the group who is the matriarch to lead the group that is the trust they have in their leadership, when a snake is born it is totally on its own will have to survive by itself till its death, that is self-reliance.

The Intelligence

So the analogy is that there are themes and behaviours which are going on the animal communities across species which has a great resemblance towards our societal living patterns.

There are birds which keep their nests spic and span to attract a mate, the cuckoo steals other bird’s eggs and feeds its own that is the first thievery recorded much before we came into the scene.

So every time we think that we are so special and invented gizmos' and also feel proud of our long distance communications, beat this! a tortoise or a sea turtle   comes back to the same beach where it was born even if is many miles away from it and same with the blue whale, pelicans and flamingos have great migrations with the help of the earth’s magnetic field.

Reptiles are still more advanced they have their weapons like heat sensors, changing skin colour, bi-directional eyes, night vision to name a few.

Let us all think for a while and stop feeling proud that we are the greatest creations ever and accept that everything that was created is great and we are also among them, all the animals are mature enough not to  interfere in our business for their own gains as we do to get their benefits.

But still at the end they are advanced than us, yes for me it feels great to see all these great creatures as a product of mutations of a single gene which has given rise so many ecosystems, phyla and species.

If we all seriously feel proud of our intellect, the task is to show courtesy towards nature and raise hands in unity to save it, and at least if you’re not able do anything better to keep quite than building plans to destroy it.

Let’s admire nature and try to save what is left.

Thanks for your time.

 Adios!

Cognizance

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Hope you all are doing well.

"The tragedy of life is not death; it is what we let die inside of us while we live"

- Norman Cousins

Well the trolls are going high on this latest topic: “Water war”  do you think it would happen? I will definitely say there is good chance of it to happen.

Upon saying that I would like to proceed and like to talk about realizations in life, we all know what it is but, why do we wait till the last moment so that something happens that is the time we all get that vibe in our minds oh! “So next time I should not end up in this situation.”

This word ‘realization’ is just a word for some; a phenomenon for some and for some is a new world.

I want to emphasis on this today because I am seeing people around me sometimes are lost in worlds which have no meanings, and some are just jumping from one pitfall to another black pool and are not ready to accepting their wrong moves/mistakes.

Instead of me feeling angry on such people I feel pity for the simple reason that they were not told by their well-wishers in an understandable way about their shortcomings or may be the person in question did not have the humility to listen.

The factor of listening is very much essential because until and unless you are ready to listen to someone we would never learn.

The youth of this generation are too smart to be frank though people say “dude even you belong to this generation” I am fair enough in accepting there is gap which is building between me  one among the 90s’ kids and this generation I am sure many would agree with me and why is that ? Is it due to technology or the so called technology boom partly yes but there is many concrete reasons for this less value educated generation which I am experiencing.

In a book which I was reading called the ‘organized mind’ by Daniel Levitin  the author says the generations are building up we should keep in mind there is a evolution happening and the level of this evolution is from the genetic level so he says the amount of information blast the generations are receiving their brains are not able to judge what information to take as a benchmark which I would say is a con of the techno boom. So there is a latency in judging the right things and realizing the wrong things which is a major concern.

We all have a general mentality of shunning anything for the first time if it is told to us in a grim way or I can say like an order, because that is where our ego is hurt and we are all madly egoistic, even though no one agrees to that.

When we are told something or let us take it as advised about how to complete a task, we would agree with the advisor and do what he says or retort, if you ask me what would I do, my answer would I will be sympathetic enough to listen to the person first then do my homework and maybe totally follow his advice or let him know my feedback or suggest him a better plan, that would be your first logical apprehension to solve a problem.

But the world is running in such a vague manner that people always end up in the net of their own egos and never understand the problem and listen to the solution and finally realize that one day when it is too late. I would like to quote an age old thought “you can buy anything under sun but not time”  so we cannot afford to waste it by fighting within.

So as the generations are growing this problem of taking own decisions which re proving to be wrong  are proving to more and more evident. We see, hear and read about weird crimes which are committed then later the convict realizing what he did was not needed, may be this is an extreme example but the number of ‘Kid adults’ are increasing each day which a big concern, so are these unreasonable crimes.

Comprehension is not magic it is just appreciating  the facts which are in front of our own eyes and acting in a particular manner which would make things easy for you and also for the people who are dependent on you.

I see some folks just crying, cribbing and running around in circles with the same problem and also tell the whole world they are in such a sad state, instead can they not work on it? and grasp their mistakes or make others realize their faults. It is all in the mind.

Recognizing at the right time, age and moving on will make you just a living,  to a happily living person I am sure no one hates happiness.

Whatever generation you are born in it doesn’t matter but being considerate to your parents and siblings and friends matter. We all need to realize the importance of nature and start respecting it rather than terminating it,  otherwise be prepared for a situation where there will be planned attacks for water and air !

We all need to cultivate the habit of listening to people before barging into conversations without context.

The sooner you comprehend these truths it is the best for you and this world.

Thanks for your time, have a fantastic day.

The monkey brain

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Hope you all are doing well

The world works on words so better make it work for you, when you talk it should reflect your age

-George Bernard Shaw

Like monkey tricks? According to you what is a monkey trick? It is something which is out of the box and it happens spontaneously, now why do I call it impulsive? Because the monkey almost does not think when it tries to do something which we call it stupid actually you now it is following logic according to it and it is doing it may be for entertainment or to steal food from people. Well it is fine for a monkey to do it ! Then why do humans end up  doing it without any goal?

I get this doubt sometimes when we say we are the result of the highest stage of evolution I feel sometimes this evolution is going in reverse direction.

So the actual monkey brain is behaving in a certain manner which is not usually termed as normal behavior  or different , if you ask me what do you mean by different is it good or bad?

I would say stand by my answer ‘different’ I would make it clear  with  a small instance which will exactly  you give you an idea about  what am I talking about, it is that state of mind of a person which makes an entire happy crowd grouch faced the moment he uttered that statement which was not appropriate to the situation.

The reason why I call it a monkey brain act is because it is done without thinking because we humans are supposed to think and second takeaway is that our childishness comes out at wrong moment.

You know many families are broken and some are suffering because of this outburst of comments or unseen behavior by their sons or husband or someone’s mother. Well the reason why this happens is pretty much understandable from the genetics point view we all do carry something called a Rhesus factor or popularly called as RH factor which we have carried on from our predecessors that I might kick in yes ! actually  valid point, but can you keep yourself away from that RH factor when you communicate to people or when you are in a social occasion ? Yes of course you can that depends on how mature are you realize before what you talk.

So when I told  this in a discussion to some learned friends of mine that we have to keep our naughty brains away for some time at given situations some people were divergent  and asked me “ so you want me to give up my individuality or you want me not be “me” well I answered them as follows:

Being you is the best thing that you can do in life but when you are put in a given scenario there are certain things we cannot openly tell that would raise eyebrows well if it is debate yes you could! But definitely not when you are sharing a table with some people who may follow some other value systems that may not match with your own, you cannot go there and tell them that you do not believe any of those things!

So we always need to be considerate and empathetic to others opinions and beliefs even though we may not like to follow it, what is the harm in just giving a nod atleast at that moment of time and maybe you think about what was discussed and reconsider your decision the thing that matters is you were considerate enough atleast to listen what the person across the table said, that would be greatly applauded for sure.

Hope we all learn to switch off our monkey brains whenever it is not required, let us be wise and try to make the people around us as well wise.

Mystique

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Hope you all are doing well.

Even the most ugliest will be liked for their character and the most beautiful can be hated for the same character,only good character matters.

-Mark Twain 

 Jose had come to meet her friend Jennifer who had just graduated from Howard University after a long break of five years.

“Come on let’s go!” we are late exclaimed Jose to her friend. So they just booked a cab as they wanted to talk as they reached the movie hall.

After the usual reels the movie began:

It was an old school story about societal complexities, actually it was an old school cowboy movie shot in the open heaths of red dog city a fictitious place created for the movie.

Well it was a long film and it finally ended, as the two friends were on their  way back home they were discussing about the movie.

The story was about a small tribe fighting for its rights who were always persecuted by the white men at time when apartheid was deeply prevailing.

Majority of the people in tribes were scared about their so called “masters” who would hire them as slaves in the future, but the movie was inclined on two people a young lady and her husband who were rock solid till the end of the movie and bent upon not getting harassed because of the color of their skin! and finally they get their freedom for their entire tribe.

“Jose what do you think in this modern society you think it easy to be firm as the couple on our decisions and we maintain a single character or people call it personality in front of almost anyone and down the timeline”? Asked Jennifer.

“So you think I have changed through the years”? Asked Jose in a lighter tone. “Well I was talking about the movie!” laughed Jenny.

“Yes on a serious note I would say yes in this modern times and changing value-culture society I would say sometimes we need to travel with the tide, well definitely up to a level”.

“I partially agree with you though not completely” replied Jennifer.

“Why”? Asks Jose who seeked a clearer explanation.

Jenny explains:

“I don’t care in what time or dimension, era we are in but I can tell you that we are all born with a character and I feel we need to maintain that and show our opinion which is a reasonable and fair one to the situation, on the contrary I would like to you tell you that suppose someone was born with a sadistic or a kinked character there is every need for him to change it and he should change it for the sake of his own good. But if you were already among the few good men who stand on your opinion there no need for you to become a chameleon at times just to impress someone let it be your boss or your wife then I would admire you!

A person with a character may sound shrewd and negative but after while or may be years people who mocked at him, disagreed with him, thought that he was unworthy would appreciate him and the only reason they do so is for his oddity.

I see people who always keep saying their lives change personally, privately and publically at certain moment in their life! But I feel it is up to them how they manage it or just crib and feel helpless about it! Their lives would not change .

I am very strong in  saying no if it does not match my value system no matter who comes and goes in your life you need to have your own individuality and your say, and should definitely have a personal where you have some space for yourself, it is actually need for your soul is what is told in an old Buddhist custom.”

Jose was impressed by the answer given by her friend and happily agreed to it.

We should always be pure in our hearts and think without a haze or wearing a disguise and just portraying a person which you are not! as a result of doing that one day you could end up in a valley of dissatisfaction or repentance as you just gave up your character! for what so ever reason.

Take care and thanks for your time.