Prologue
WE ARE HUMAN.
We are given certain gifts: to laugh, to think for ourselves, to possess free will, to choose our final afterlife, to live, to die, and finally, to love.
Love – (n.) a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person; a feeling of warm personal attachment; sexual passion or desire; unconditional care for another.
However you look at it, whatever your definition, it is still love. But if there is love, there is also hate. We as humans are also familiar with that feeling.
Hate – (n.) intense dislike; extreme aversion or hostility.
We have seen love as well as hate throughout our lives; throughout the centuries as they play out in a rote way giving us beings a sense of purpose. Since the beginning of our very existence, when God created the heaven and earth and its inhabitance—humans—we have seen both love and hate live together in peace, harmony, and coexistence.
God's intense, never-ending love for humanity and our souls began when he breathed life into Adam and maybe—without our knowledge—existed long before that when he dwelt in heaven with his chorusing angels.
Hate however was not brought into our world through God. His only hate is for sin. We are the cause of hate dwelling in our society. We never intended to bring it into existence but when Eve took a bite of the forbidden fruit, she became sinful and for the first time, possessed the feeling hatred.
Hate is not all bad. It can be used for good though we mostly do not think of it that way. Our hate is normally directed towards those we don't like: people who have hurt us verbally or physically, on purpose or accidently.
If we turned our hate towards treachery, dishonesty, or like God's, sin, hate could actually be beneficial our world.
Humans must decide—must make the choice—will they use hate to profit society or to destroy their very existence?
We are human.
To be human is also to possess emotions such as happiness, sadness, anger, fatigue, and sorrow.
Anger leads to hate; hate leads to bitterness and brokenness which eventually lead to destruction.
The choice is will we let anger consume us and will we let it be our only drive to success when we are really driving ourselves to destruction and obliterate everything we have worked so hard for?
We are human.
Under all our flaws, we are capable of things other beings are not. We have a soul. That alone separates from the beast of the earth, aliens of the sky, and monsters lying deep below our feet. Though we are mostly a corrupt species that has lived on long past our time, we have succeeded in making advances in all different fields in only a matter of about a hundred years and we will most likely continue to make advances.
Though we have made great advances and seem to be well ahead of our time, we tend to overlook the possibility that some other species might actually be more sophisticated than we humans. Though we like to imagine we are the only people on our small universe, we know in our hearts we are not.
We like to believe we are superior to any other; we assume we are more evolved than any other.
Could our pride and arrogance bring us to our knees and make us beg for mercy under the weight of destruction caused strictly by ourselves? Yes.
But we are only human.
