#the human state – @hacked-wtsdz on Tumblr

Human beings are born so unspeakably helpless, the very first thing we know and learn is being helped. Only able to eat and shit, and needing help with those too, screaming in horrified and confused rage because your sock is wrong. Someone knitted that sock for you, not out of expecting your gratitude but because babies need socks. The body is only a vessel, what makes a human is their body’s worth of love and care with no expectation of ever being returned, poured into a human-shaped mould. A child is a sinkhole of love, care and affection that takes and takes and gives nothing back, until they’re whole and what you get back is an entire human being, capable of kindness and affection of their own.

Natural selection is brutal and ruthless, and look at where it brought us. Right here. Evolution does not entertain folly or nonsense, what doesn’t work and what doesn’t serve is discarded without a blink of hesitation. And we are here, omnivore apex predators that even other apex predators avoid, making visits to the moon and sending our curious creations onto other planets and outer space, for literally no other reason than that we can.

They have found prehistoric bodies of our ancestors with injuries and birth defects that certainly render them incapable of surviving on their own, and they are healed, and lived to relatively old ages. Someone healed that bone, someone fed that brother who would never feed the clan. And those people survived, that clan lived, not despite of but because of those who want to help. You are a descendant of thousands of thousands who loved, accepted help, and helped others in return.

Don’t you ever fucking think you don’t deserve help.

#the human state #the human condition #people #love