I want to be God, and so do You.

What are we – as Humans? What is our meaning, our purpose? We strive for knowledge, power and wealth, but we are never coming any closer to answering the most important questions. But that does not stop us from trying to find out the answers, does it? For generations Humans have tried to answer some of life’s greater mysteries such as “Who is God?”, “What is the soul?” and “What created life?”. And even though most humans know that these questions are only ever going to be answered after we’re all gone, there are still some people who refuse to accept the obvious. We are in control of our own lives, our own destiny.

Or are we?

We are living in a world today where everyone is pushing for that time in the spotlight, their fifteen minutes of fame. They say that “Everyone has something that they’re good at”, and that’s what people search for for their entire lives. Some may not find it, but those who do, do not stop at “good”. People are flocking from other nations to our own, for fame, for glory, for it is in our nature to do so. We want to be seen as “the best”, just like those Musicians who strive for the top place in the Music Charts, the Artists that produce their work and submit them to art galleries and Athletes who constantly aim for the 1st Place Prize. We like to be praised for what we can do, perhaps more importantly, we want to. Although it is not perhaps the most moral reason to do a task, we crave the power that comes after years of hard work. Why do middle-aged men working in office jobs work so hard? Why do Pop Stars continue to write songs after years of being a multi-millionaire? The answer is simple, the top is where we feel most comfortable and it is Human Nature to aim for it.

Since the beginning of time we Humans have found ways to compete with others; sports, gambling, anything and everything that can have a winner and loser has been used to make one person feel better than another. So what is our “ultimate game”? We aim for so many things in life; more money, more power, fame, health, a family and happiness. In theory, if a man or woman manages to “defeat” all opponents and “win” all money, power, fame and so on, they will never ever be forgotten. We essentially aim for the seemingly impossible, immortality. But to what extent will a person go to, to ensure victory in the game called life? Will we ever go as far as to kill off all the opposition? Athletes have been caught taking strength inducing drugs to win, and it is also speculated that some elections are fixed so one of the people running for Prime Minister or President will get in no matter what the public wants. Nevertheless, it seems that even though we are willing to do anything to reach our ultimate goal, we don’t like to admit it.

So although we’re very willing to do a lot to get to our goal of “immortality”, we have a feeling inside of us which tells us that we must stop. Our conscience. Our conscience will prevent us from killing for personal gain, or at least, it usually does. Killing may be wrong, and against the law, but it is our nature to kill for our cause. We kill animals for food, for clothing, for fun. How long until we decide that the life of another human who is simply getting in our way is useless, and will do better in the afterlife? We are very talented creatures compared to some, and we may have this moral that murder is wrong, but it won’t remain forever. It is our nature to kill, and we have done, and will do so.

I do not claim to know the meaning of Human life, as that would be silly but it certainly appears that we Humans are on this planet not to reproduce, (that’s also silly, that’s animal instinct, not a meaning) but we’re aiming for the highest we can possibly go.

We want to be perfection.

We want to be immortalized.

We want to be God.

~ by Anubis on April 10, 2007.