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How to be Human: 1.1
Part 2: The Present


I was talking along the highway. Gazing around the corners, trying to look for answers. But seems I am lost.

I found a bench where I could rest for a while. I grab a sit and calm myself.
My foot led me to a park with a little lake on it. It was near twilight when I decided to take some walk.

I have many questions. Many stories to tell.
And still, "How to be Human is something I always remembered".

I met a man whom I thought to be different which every person prayed for but I was wrong.

He turns like others too. A man that will ask you to marry him but after a week his mind will change as if your answer of yes is just a game for him.

I cannot understand why there are man like that. Yes, we have many reasons, we have many pains, but if you are not sure of your decisions, why ask a very important question, right?.

Is being human teaches you to say a word you cannot kept?
Is being human wanting you to play someone's emotion?

For me it's not.

Because if you are human, you "think first" before you say something. You ask first before you judge someone, you never give up easily because you know, you have mind that solves problem.

Why would you also complain, and show your frustrations yet, it's just the result of your preferences and beliefs.

You know, as we age, we become self-centered. We focus on things that ask as some selfish questions.

I want this.
I want that.
I want to be heard first.
I first, Me First enigma but, is it worth it?

How to be Human? I still don't know how. All I know is: do good, be kind, learn to help and give, paint the world with love and hope.

Would that be enough values to learn in order for me to qualify as human?.

What else do I need to do to be human?
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Suddenly, a tear fall into my eyes. I remember my battle scar. The special heart I have since I was born. I remember that, I was born having a heart disease and I can feel my heartbeat. After I got my surgery and survive for so long years, still, I felt like, It wasn't my heart and illness which makes me feel human.

It is my soul and being. I might have a heart with a nickel inside like a robot but, my soul is the one which keeps me alive.

Even if I try to close my eyes and pretend I am blind, still I can say words without hearing a sound. Having a senses makes me human then?
But, animals has that too... Is there something beyond the universe can explain which makes me " Human"?

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