You and I are the Same!

Technology sure is wonderful. Back in the old days, people used horses to travel. Now we have cars that can run many times faster than horses. We can even go to space. I am positive that people from that past wouldn’t even imagine that such a thing is possible. How the human civilization has advanced is really fascinating.

What I really admire is how our means of communication have been developed so that in a few clicks, you can actually send a mail across the vast lands and oceans separating one person to another. People used to travel for months trying to deliver a message, and now we have pocketsize computers that can send a message in an instant.

I will always be in awe of how we have progressed through time to make things more efficient and convenient. However, there is something that I don’t approve of about us. Despite the capability to communicate with one another by use of technology, we still haven’t learned how or what it really is to communicate. It is actually ironic.

When are we going to learn how to settle our differences? Aren’t we all human beings? With intellect and will, we are at the top of the food chain and we are superior over the rest of animals. And yet, when we have opposing opinions or cultures, we still end up like lions fighting over a single prey. We growl at each other, we scratch each other and we even kill each other like animals controlled only by instincts.

On going wars in the Middle East, the constant struggle of Palestinian Arabs against Israeli Jews, seems like it will be an endless turmoil that will always plague news and world history. It is not only in the Middle East but everywhere in the world. We have civil wars and conflicts going on everywhere even in our own homes and relationships.

At the root of those conflicts is our pride. Because of pride, it has become hard for people to admit mistakes and to reconcile differences. It seems as if we prefer conflict than peace just to prove that we have our pride. With regards to the struggle between the Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews, they are in conflict because they want the land (now named Israel) to be theirs (either Jews or Arabs) and theirs alone. Can’t they just split the land up and live peacefully? Unfortunately not! It is because of pride.

We have advanced our ways to communicate and yet we haven’t developed our ability to accept and understand each other. We are all human beings. Regardless of culture, race, nationality, language or appearance, we are still all the same in nature. We are advanced animals with intellect and will who have progressed tremendously from early homosapiens but current conditions in human civilizations makes one realize that we are still primates when it comes to understanding each other as fellow human beings. It will remain as such until the time we learn how to put our pride aside and accept one another.

By Joe Gallegos