Sunday, February 20, 2011

God's greatest gift to mankind

Humans are an organism like another in the animal kingdom. And yet, humans are different from all other animals. The taxonomical term for humans are 'homo sapien sapien.' The repetition in 'sapien' stands for our brain power that exceeds all of our fellow animals. The human mind is truly more fascinating than that of all other animals in this world. It is full of possibilities and ideas and distinguishes.

Something else which sets us apart is our conscience. Our power to choose between right and wrong. To be able to decide whether an act is done rightfully or with other intentions. But this conscious intertwined appropriately with our amazing mind with the remarkable abilitiy of possibilities gives birth to an incredible ability which has come to be known as perception.

What is perception? Perception is what we perceive. The definition of perceive in the english dictionary is to become aware of through the senses. I beg your pardon if i am wrong but i believe that this is rather a very brief description to a really amazing power.

Said Aldous Huxely 'To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' - this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.' What Mr. Huxely has stated here is just a little scratch of what the gift of perception means. It talks about bad behavior. But beyond that negativity perception can be a real beautiful thing. For example two people of the same age, the same sex, the same nationality, speaking in the same language, of the same race, believing in the same religion sitting in a bench might witness an event take place and have two different interpretations on it. And yet, why should that be so? After all these people are from the same place, they believe in the same faith, they are from the same age group but yet it is beautiful that our individuality and uniqueness is to such an extent that even these two people who have seen the same event take place would have different accounts on the incident.

It does not have to be entirely different. If two people got into a fight and one got injured, in one person's report the reason for the fight might be perceived in a different way than the other even though they might still believe the same person is to be blamed for it. Such strong is the gift of perception and that level of individuality makes us different from others. And this level of uniqueness in the six billion people scattered around the world and the billions of people who have lived and died, and the billions yet to come is an astounding fact and a great statistical miracle and truly the greatest gift god or nature have given us in our days in the world.

2 comments:

  1. An immaculate demonstration of how perception varies from human to human. Keep it up, Rylog!

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  2. Thank you Jaishan :D I m glad you liked it.

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