Dhruvaditya’s reflective piece on DifferentTruths.com explores the duality of human nature, survival instincts, and our ultimate evolutionary purpose.
AI Summary
- The Illusion of Morality: The author posits that absolute good and evil do not exist in nature; instead, human actions are driven by natural survival instincts and an innate, sometimes destructive, need to find reason.
- The Trap of Justification: Human exploration and dark historical atrocities—from lobotomies to atomic destruction—stem from minds disguising base instincts as necessary rationale, pulling humanity away from its natural state.
- The Path to True Evolution: Ultimate human purpose is not found in wealth or societal success but in internal balance, deep self-exploration, and an organic, nature-driven shift toward what is inherently right.
There lies a darkness within each of us. Some of us go with it, justifying it to ourselves and the world as if we’re the best thing there is. Our mistake is that with acceptance, change refuses to come, and yet, change is the only thing truly meant to be constant in life. Some of us live as good people, suffering a lot, yet believing in the good of the world, carrying on our legacy through our deeds and words.
And each one has the other’s characteristics and traits.
But no matter who it is, human minds need reason, even behind the darkest of tragedies. We look for reasons behind the deeds of our ancestors, behind genocide, dictatorship, lust, and sometimes our basest instincts that just ring so wrong. That need for reason, to make sense of evil and good alike, is what drives us to become either. To choose good or bad and to find reason within ourselves. But in truth? There is, or at least was, no good or evil. No truth, no absolution, no evil. Just what was right. And that was the nature of all things: the nature of the very Earth we walk on and of the air we breathe.
Nature can cause calamities, evolution can cause deformities, to survive, we can cause the cruellest of deeds, and any living thing can. And that right there, that need to survive, from within that natural law, something unnatural was born deep inside human minds: an inhuman thought. The need to reason. It drove us to explore, to find, and to experiment with ideas that were never meant to be explored, separating us from our homes and making us a different living creature than the “animals” as we so call them.
Lobotomy, electrocution, fire, skinning, cannibalism, viruses, accidents that cause mass destruction, and radiation from atomic bombs – every single one of these is the result of the instinct of survival and the human mind’s need to reason.
We experiment, explore, and disguise ourselves within reason without ever truly finding our purpose, hiding behind the need to do good or the need for revenge, for love, or for hate. We were meant to be watchers, to be the righteous final evolution, a new branch of life meant to explore and watch and mentor this world and others beyond the farthest reaches of what our current feeble minds can imagine.
Our true purpose lies within ourselves, not amongst others or in a hobby, an object or within our accomplishments or a job. Not even in being successful or rich or powerful. It lies in exploring our own minds, accepting, progressing, processing, and finally evolving. Analysing each emotion and understanding the meaning of what is truly right, not good, not bad, but right.
The best person harbours the worst thoughts, and the worst one has the noblest reasons. It is up to humanity to inspire and find a balance within themselves, lest we spread the seeds of conflict that we created in our own souls throughout the seed of life, making it a permanent part of life, good and evil, even though it was never truly meant to be.
But I fear it is already too late. Pain already resides in our blood. The need to choose a side deep in our hearts. And in the end, either everything matters in our soul, or nothing does, and nothing we do can change it.
We could have, but I’m afraid things have been set in motion that can’t be undone. Pain can’t be forgotten, neither can mistakes be erased, and forgiveness is a ruse in many minds. The truth of it is forgotten behind the need to be better and the desire that somehow the universe will do what we didn’t do, our very thoughts bending the universe as we whisper them every day to the darkness we lie in, before and after closing our eyes.
Millions, wishing for the same thing, good or bad, are changing the universe in ways we can’t imagine, a minuscule wish causing a great butterfly effect that spans across dimensions of the very nature of matter, rewriting the code of life for many generations, theirs and our surroundings alike. But one should not give up hope.
We must change. But not by choice. By nature. From within. Not by force.
Picture design by Anumita Roy
Dhruvaditya Tiwari aka Dhruva (15) is an avid reader and a passionate writer. He can weave stories with the same ease as he ponders upon scientific theories. He wrote his first novelette – The Hiding when he was just eight years of age and became one of the world’s youngest authors. He has a warm and philosophical personality, and has overcome many challenges of life in fifteen years. Now, he wishes to share his thoughts with the world by publishing some meaningful write-ups for the world to read and discuss. Simultaneously, he is working on another book.
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