Our Primal Preferences

We begin as babies. Obviously! In this phase, we don't have language to express ourselves. We do it through our body. This is, from there on, subconsciously, always our preferred form of expression. Studying someone's Body language is and always will be the best way to know someone, given one knows how to do it. We talk and intellectualise subjects, pretending we know everything, and if not that, then a lot of it, and mostly most of what we know doesn't help when we are helpless. We are, even after we become adults, but babies. Many things we do doesn't even makes sense. Mostly, We do what we do because it feels good. We equate the feeling of goodness, that pleasure, with security and thus we prefer it. We, even after becoming adults, are but primal animals, just like babies, relying on our primal instincts, our subconscious. Only our jungles have changed. They are of concrete now. That's all the difference there is to it. If we just get off of our high horses and stop thinking of ourselves as god's most beautiful and magnificent creation , and instead treat ourselves as the animals we are, maybe we can help ourselves then. Aristotles said," Man is a Social Animal." Well, that's true! Absolutely! But so are ants, hyenas, elephants, Lions etc. So? But we have our intelligence, right? We are the most intelligent animal,right? Sure we are. But we still are animals. Our intelligence doesn't change that. That remains a fact. Our intelligence is a heightened pattern recognition and association tool. We should exercise it, strengthen it, sharpen it. We should use it not to hurt our own selves by encaging ourselves in the trauma of yesterday. But, use them, in this jungle of concrete, as an adept hunter to meet your dreams and aspirations, but most importantly, to survive!