Expectations

Human nature. What is it that makes human nature different? Is it the sense of instinct which drives each and every human being? Is it the competition that we are constantly exposed to in our day to day life? After all, we are, at the end of the day, just descendants of beasts – a species which constantly within themselves try to establish an alpha male. I cant help but wonder whether years and years of evolution failed to eradicate the 1 very basic quality which, essentially, is the constant driving force of an individual to strive for the best – the quality of competition.


It can be argued that competition always brings out the best in people. Is this really true? One thing that history has taught is never to be naïve. Historical events tell the tale of people who took competition so seriously that they did anything, absolutely anything, to maintain their competitive advantage.  This is but the sad part of human nature. They say that humans have the most evolved spirits – yet time and time again, we have proven to our overlords that this spirit is tainted and that the constant evolution minus direction dilutes the spirits to such an extent that it bends the minds of people who start doing the most unexpected things in the most unorthodox manner. The weirdest part to all this is that they remain impervious to the most obvious quality which humans uniquely possess – perspective.


The most common reaction to this argument is denial. What one human sees as an act of unworthiness is perceived by others as an act to just make ends meet. So, who is to draw the line of expectations? Who is to say and dictate what is the expectation in terms of the action performed by the humans as they go about their day to day chores? These lines are drawn by a group of humans in society who summation of perspectives comes out to be zero. However, the real question beckons here is if the summation is actually zero? Is it possible that you get the precisely right amount of ying and yangs, pluses and minuses to balance out a human equation? Isnt the existence of an anomaly the most obvious truth which ensures that the society and in extension the universe balances itself out? Then you sit and wonder who or rather what brings about such anomaly? Is it a human quality? Is it just plain simple quantity of human beings? Or is it a perspective of the 3rd dimension? Further comes a thought that if there is indeed an anomaly, who in turn sets the expectations for the scope of this anomaly?


If for a moment, we consider that the summation of perspectives is indeed zero, then the outcome of these perspectives should ideally be a line by line setting of expectation. If an expectation is set in such a unique way, then all humans would respond to competition in the same exact manner. This would mean that only true talent can allow for one human to triumph over the other in pure competition.  This would mean that all talent is supplemented by something which humans again have inherited from their beasty ancestors – survival instinct. But isn’t it natural for any life form to do whatever it takes to survive? This would mean that in order to survive, humans would unearth talents which aren’t the best ones always thereby leading to a state where a human tries to dictate its position as an alpha male in forcible circumstances.


This makes me think if really in order to set the expectation, we try to use the excuse of an anomaly to balance the perspectives out. So, ultimately isn’t the anomaly nothing but the degree to which humans can go to survive in a competitive world? And isn’t the root of the immergence of this anomaly attributed to the presence of the need to have expectations in a bid to have order to the way humans compete in this world? So, is it wrong to say that we have evolved from our ancestors or are we just a highly intellectual descendants of them who undertake the same tactics to be the alpha male but only in a civilized/humanized manner?