135 days until the election (#4159)

     Our reason for being isn't to just make a safe harbor and hide in it. We are human beings who have massive abilities to do whatever we can imagine. Maybe not today or tomorrow but certainly out into the future where our limits are only bounded by our lack of effort and desire. The unknown is something that is just waiting to be discovered and we as humans are the only ones who can make it so. We have five senses that help us to accumulate and understand. We have physical attributes that make us adaptable to differing challenges. We have mental capabilities that create opportunities for us to expand into otherwise deadly environments.
     I am no comfort seeker who sees nothing else as worthy. I may take comfort at times but it isn't a destination for me. It is just a pause along the way of my own quest to discover. Knowing the unknown is my quest in life and the highest priority of why I am alive. So when I see other humans who cannot have enough of the limited resources available it makes me unsettled and disappointed in their misguided understanding of their own nature. We are as humans similar to the probes we send out into space to record or analyze date. We ourselves are biological data processors that not only acquire data but we then use our functioning minds to reason, analyze, and conclude varying facts and truths.
     We are not like Jaba the Hut in the Star Wars series who just sits in one place to be entertained. We are greater than that! Our diverse and unique nature, under the umbrella of the survival instinct, give us care and curiosity. With both care and curiosity we are able to not only find happiness but we also find purpose. A manifest destiny not tied to geography but to ideas and possibilities. Who we were as a species in the past is not who we are now given the advancement of enlightenment and knowledge. Our evolution into a species that no longer sees the world as our boundary now demands that we move out into that space and time paradigm that is full of what we don't now but yearn to find.