Being Human

"Being human sucks" -Ryan O. French

       Being Human doesn't have one clear requirement. We could draw up a list of all the qualities humans share that's unique to any other life form on Earth, and there would still be people that don't completely fit in everywhere, and they'd still be human nonetheless. Sure there are some characteristics that tend to hold true, such as our awareness of death, our ability to have beliefs (personal beliefs, religions, etc.), our desire to leave a legacy after we're gone (other than offspring), our ability to learn from our past and to learn from our ancestors to (try) not to make the same mistakes they did, and especially our pristine talent to write blogs about being human.
       To be human, in my opinion since opinions are part of what makes us human, one needs to be able to realize that they are in fact, human. To do that is really quite simple, yet only one species on this hugely diverse planet of ours is able to do so. Now I know this contradicts my initial statement about there not being one clear requirement to be human, but I feel like that's rather humanistic of me to do that! So hooray for me! I may have just wasted your time!
       Now to the good stuff, being a man. Whats it mean to be a man? Well being a man means the exact same as being a WOman. The only real difference is the "WO" part, and the slight physical differences in our bodily shape and the roles we each play in reproduction. To put it simply like in the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie Kindergarten Cop, "Boys have a penis and girls have a vagina!" Men can think and act exactly the same as other men do, and men can think and act exactly the same as woman do. While women can think and act exactly the same as other women do, and women can think and act exactly the same as other women do.
       To be an artist, one needs to create art. Simple. Being an artist means you must create something pleasing, or even just stimulating, to any of the senses, smell, touch, sound, you name it.
       "Our insistence on cognitive knowing may already have robbed us of some of our capacity for being human." It's human to learn and grow mentally. It good that we getting more-er smart. It's human of us to think and learn cognitively.  When know more about the universe and more importantly when we know more about ourselves we become more unique, more human.
I'll leave you with a quote from a role model of mine.

"Being human rocks" -Ryan O. French