The 3 Stages Of Human Evolution
Evolution Stage 1: Existing
āIn the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.ā
We all exist in some form first as a thought, āWhen I grow up I want to have kids.ā At least one if not both of your parents had this thought then they grew up and procreated. Your second stage of existence is conception, when the sperm meets the egg. You are now a physical entity and depending on where you are conceived in this world you are even protected under law. You may not be a person in the traditional sense but you still exist.
There are some of us that even after birth mentally, for some reason or another, donāt seem to shake this sense of just existing. We feel our existence is less valuable than our peers, we feel less than human. We are the Pace Cars of humanity, we never win or lose the race because we are never in it we just simply make the laps. We are alive in the most literal sense of the word, we breathe, eat, and sleep; we exist. We are alive, but have no feeling of being alive. Our lives are just a series of trained actions, we eat when hungry, we sleep when tired and we work to make money. We exist nothing more nothing less.
We float through life without realizing what our true purpose really is. We know that we exist, but question why do we exist in the first place. What is our purpose? Where do we fit in the grand scheme of things? Do we fit in at all? It is at this pivotal moment that we do one of two things: either we stay here floating or we decide to change our course of thinking and proactively start doing things to carve ourselves a place amongst our peers. We start a course to find our sense of identity. We donāt just exist, and we donāt yet have a purpose, but we now exist to find said purpose and so we continue to evolve. Itās only when we decide to venture out of the bubble of existence, on hand and knee, do we truly start to change.
Evolution Stage 2: Crawling
āSome people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.ā
Here you are, you exist, but now what? You are a living breathing organism that eats, sleeps, poops and CRIES. For months and months this is all you do until finally pull our knees up under us and hold our torso up with our arms and start to meander across the floor. We have accomplished a milestone, but with every new win comes the next stage and as we watch others walk we start to become unsure. We doubt we can do anything more than crawl. Then we start convincing ourselves that we donāt need to walk, that crawling is just fine and then we settle in that mindset.
This mindset can severely hamper social interaction and in turn breed a host of issues such as self-esteem issues, self-worth issues as well as self-image issues. Maybe we should stay crawling? Maybe weāre not good enough to do more? Itās best just to stay here where it is comfortable. We keep on mentally meandering through life doing just enough to keep us afloat, treading water just off the shore.
We crawl mentally long after we take our first steps as a child. We do just enough to get us through our daily lives. We do just enough to graduate high school even though we probably couldāve made Valedictorian. We learn just enough to land us a job that has potential to be a career, but we never take that opportunity to grow because we are unsure. We have all the potential, gain all the know-how, but without the confidence to throw ourselves out there, so we stay on the back burner, stay crawling and while this isnāt necessarily a bad thing it may be crippling to those crawlers that yearn to pull themselves up on flat feet.
Evolution Stage 3: Standing
āhave a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.ā
We often take for granted this simple action that we have been doing since we first performed this trick as toddlers. Yet, the standing being referred to is that of the type we do when we back a belief we have or finally give the school bully a piece of our mind or a knuckle sandwich. This type of standing takes way more effort and is way more rewarding. We are slowly but surely standing, taller each day. We owe this impart to our own determination to not necessarily right the wrongs of our past but rather to prevent them from reoccurring in the first place. We all still have some ways to go and we should take it all on one day at a time.
This type of standing takes a bit of self-control to hold and maintain. Some of us can do this with relative ease and for that they should be commend because for some it is hard to stand, but itās getting easier by each passing day. Each day brings us closer to where and who we want to be. What used to seem virtually impossible now seems more obtainable.
Standing after falling is even harder to do and thatās where We are at right now. We fell down pretty hard and it took time, patience and commitment, but here we are standing. We are doing everything within our power to prevent bad things from reoccurring. Itās hard and we are far from perfect, but itās worth all the struggle. We are now standing tall with confidence and pride. With this new found pride we can now put one foot in front of the other and traverse towards our ultimate goal.
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