The Human Virus

Imagine for a second you are a virus, you’re agenda is take on one part of a living organism that allows you to sustain and reproduce. you look for the part and just start feeding off it.

I started having these thoughts and attempted to write about them two years ago

and it’s only until now that I summoned the will to do it because this shouldn’t wait any longer.

i am constantly concerned when looking how we humans are exhausting the life out of this world, we get mad when a virus hits our machine and renders it useless, but we’re not aware of our viral existence on this earth, the way we spread and expand, unconsciously consuming, vicariously polluting, spending money and resources, pointlessly contesting in vein competitions.

This Planet

We Humans haven’t always been clever, looking at the history of humanity and the way we have evolved. there’s obviously an element of collective intelligence that is gradually growing as we go. For example some 60 years ago we were between two world wars  which both resulted in the deaths and scars of millions of people many of which haven’t completely shaken off the effects as yet. Looking back at those events was that something that could have been avoided if we humans were a little more evolved?

Naturally humans forget, while this could be one of the greatest bliss we have, it also has a catastrophic downside. I feel by now we seem to have forgotten about war and the scenes of misery it has brought to many countries and populations, and when the image is vague enough we will start preparing for the next clash.

The truth is humans will always be evolving, which means there is always something for us to learn. and the fact is we will probably never meet perfection.

We populate this planet going around using it’s resources. burning the excess, wasting food, polluting it’s air, to me we are like a virus, that has been spreading across the planet and it’s only a matter of time before we completely cripple it and render it inhabitable.

I lead with this dark and grim image just to reflect how serious the situation we find ourselves in today. Right now I see humans putting so much effort and money to go out in space and explore other galaxies which have the potential for incubating life. while I am a deep advocate of science and all research, but we have a perfectly functional home for us, rather than or before spending billions every year to go digging around the universe looking for potential homes, wouldn’t we rather spend all this money in fixing the the damage we’ve done so far, bring it to halt and make sure this planet is sustained for the future and next generations? because this is a chance we own. our search across the universe is a gamble.

The first step and key to achieving anything in life is awareness. To deal with a problem or improve a certain situation you have to be aware of it’s existence, and be aware that there could possibly be a solution if you have a solid plan. We have to be aware of the current problem first and foremost, we need to realise that this planet isn’t going to last long if we keep at this destructive pattern. our population isn’t decreasing, it’s growing, everything is expanding and growing, and the more people populate the earth the wider becomes out problem if we do not manage this growth and the way we utilise this planet’s resources.

We can start by spreading more  awareness among groups and individuals, mass campaigns to make everyone aware of the gravity of the current situation, get everyone to be more invested in the well-being of the coming generations to walk this earth. also as mentioned previously all the money and funds are being raised and pent and arguably wasted in research of the universe, this can be slightly channelled to be more focused on sustaining the planet and improving the ways we maintain our resources. we can teach young generations that they only need to use what they need. you don’t have to waste a hole bottle of shampoo when you’re showering, you don’t have to buy a plastic cup for your coffee every single morning or 3 times a day.

When these resources run out we are going to turn against each other and world war all over again. Because when humans become desperate they fall back to their primitive nature  chucking all evolution they attained against the wall.

Plague.com

I remember back in the days when I didn’t have any phone or laptop, I only had a desktop computer, and the internet was an exceptional commodity not anyone could afford. I used to come home patiently waiting to switch on my machine, sign in, and start chatting away. I would find messages from people, friends I have met online, waiting for me, checking on me and warmly greeting me. Everyone had this hub they come to in the evening, and everyone would chat with everyone at these times. It was time that I enjoyed because it was limited, and everyday I set in my head what I intend to achieve something specific during this time. “I want to ask someone out today, I want to get a date today,  share my interests with someone, and know their likes and dislikes”. Things like this are in my mind before I start my “Internet time”, every session had specific minutes, that you actually achieve at the end of the day.

This makes me think how social media these days is just plaguing our society, these days you are always connected, constantly logged in, you have a machine that’s always running, just waiting for you to suck your soul and brush your brains away, on this small device you can achieve many useful tasks. These days you can order food through the phone, apply for a job through the phone, meet your soul mate, make friends, and get married over the internet, next thing you know people are going to have babies through the phone.

You also have all your social media Apps where you can communicate with the world, this is where the “social plague” kicks in,  it’s called social media but it’s actually anti social, where people are isolated from the real world by connecting through the cyber space using their tiny  electronic portals, only looking at virtual objects, creating virtual ties, and indulging feelings triggered by virtual realities. How is this by any form or logic social? we don’t need to speak to each other anymore, we just text from one room to the next, we don’t need to ask the good old how are you? because we know how is it going through our Facebook wall, we don’t need to ask what did you have for lunch, we can see that on Instagram, what music do you like? oh right I’ve already checked your Google plus page and I know.

This conveyor belt that’s called Facebook, it is truly an obsessive pit, if you don’t keep throwing your babies or food onto it, you’ll be forgotten, you will feel like an outcast while you actually are in the real world, but you only had your likes to make you feel better about yourself.

Get on the train, try to count how many of the people are actually reading a book and not obsessively browsing their phones. Just walk in public one day and try to observe how many people are walking like iZmobies all deeply gaping into their phones and not even looking where they’re going, sometimes I think of just stepping in front of someone and see if they are can move away from danger. And this actually reminds me of the situation of humanity in general, we’re just walking into a pit of darkness without even looking or knowing where we’re headed.

Our societies are degrading by the day, I can only imagine what kind of decline we’ll witness in the level of talent, achievements, and creative thinking with people only occupied with their phones, the people inside them, and the food they are going to post about. With you connected 24/7 to the internet, the amount of time you’ll waste is dangerously colossal, and how many things you will miss out on in the real world? you have no interest in your real interests any more, you just want to get on and chat on, post and text, how will you be able to concentrate on anything any time or productively allocate your time to your daily tasks?

I want those times back where you can actually achieve something during your day and not just dissipate your energy and thoughts into the cyber black hole, this addiction that we grow everyday is something more destructive than anything ever plagued the human plane. We might not see or touch it’s effects but in time this tumor is growing under the skin until it explodes and there is no fixing it because it’s too late and too damaging.

Facebook

I think Facebook is destroying our social life,

birthday’s have no meaning any more,

Facebook is going to tell you when is anyone’s birthday and you can’t actually point out who genuinely remembers your birthday and cares about you.

And the fact that we sign in to Facebook on a daily basis, we read news about our friends everyday,

so every single step they do is delivered right to our home page, and this eliminates the need for us to directly communicate with each other,

we need not to get in touch with each other and ask about our lives and new developments, because it’s all there published on our blue and white.

My Favourite Quotes

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

To improve is to change, to perfect is to change often.

―Winston Churchill

“Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.”

― Napoleon Hill