What does being human mean?

Being human means striving for a better purpose and being able to feel emotions. Everybody feels and wants to do something. Might be something miniscule or humungous, doesn't matter, they still want to do and feel something. If someone had no emotions or goals for there life, I believe that that person would lose the qualities that would make them human.

Everyone wants to do something with their life. No matter what the goal is, everyone has one. The goal might be to become a firefighter, lawyer, hobo, create life like Victor Frankenstein, or even a power ranger, there is still a goal set. My goal is to become a welder once I graduate from high school and college. Having goals is part of what makes humans humans and everyone should set a high goal for themselves.

Every human has the capacity to feel emotions. No matter who you are, you feel some sort of emotion.It could be happiness, sadness, remorse, indifference, or even appathy, people still feel something. Someone could be a evil villain or the world’s most nicest person, they still feel something. Even if it is just a fleeting feeling, the feeling is still there and that is also part of what makes us humans so different than other species.

Some people will say animals feel emotions to, and they do. The feelings I’m talking about are deep emotions that could rule a person’s life. Animals go off of instincts instead of emotions. Those certain people might also say animals have a purpose as well, and, yet again, they do, but they do not set goals for themselves and strive to achieve that purpose.

Anthropomorphism

My friend, Tucker, and I were out running around and doing other wolf things one day. During out trek through the vast forest we call home, we spoted a herd of dear. We had been goofing off all day so we worked up quite an appetite. I decided to approach the herd from the right side while Tucker took the left. Right before I pounced on the herd, I heard a lot of superflouos noise coming from Tucker's side and the herd trampled off before I could sink my teeth into one. Angered, I stomped over to Tucker, and what I saw will forever be etched into my memory. Tucker, the fool, had fallen into a sink hole and couldn't get out. He was covered in mud from tail to head and had the funniest look on his face. I laughed so hard and long that the sun was setting by the time I got Tucker out. We headed back to the pack and shared the story of our adventure that day.

Frankenstein vs Walton

I think Frankenstein and Walton are similer in ways. but very different in others. What I mean by that is they both stirve for the same thing, but go about it very differently and both are obdurate.


Both of the men want to achieve greatness and do what's never been done before. Frankenstein wants to create life, something that has certainly never been done before and will achive him great fame, and Walton wants to go to the artic cirlce, something that wasn't achieved at the time and would get him considerable fame.


Frankestein didn't stop when he should've unkile Walton did. Frankenstein gave up everything, including his life, in his journy to fame. Walton saw that his goal was unachievable and turned back before disaster could befall him.


So as I said earlier, Frankenstein and Walton are similar, but Walton, in the end, proved to be wiser than his counter part. Proving that they are in fact different in important ways.

The zeal to survive

A person should never give up on life. If a person is faced with a seamingly impossible, arduous situation, they should never give up and submit to defeat. They should fight 'till the bitter end, because there might be a way out they didn't realize before. So a person should NEVER loose the will to live.


An example of situations where people didn't give up would be the Titanic. The ship was sinking and the people on the ship fought to live. They never gave up and fought 'till there dieing breath. If people can be faced with such insurmountable odds and still fight, why can't everyone else?


Another example would be Buck out of the book Call of the Wild. He is taken from his home, thrown into a new life style, and constantly facing hardships he never had to face before, yet he still fights rampantly to survive. If he can be put through that and still come out on top why not us?




I've have stated a few examples of why we should never loose our zeal to survive. So now I leave you with a question. The next time you are faced with a tough situation are you going to give up and accept your bitter fate, or will you rise up and face it head on with celerity and formidable strength?