What I Like And What I Dislike In Human Beings

Short story short, more than a hundred years of psychotherapy and the world is getting worse.

James Hillman got it right. Reasonably correct in his data collection about the influence of psychotherapy in our modern world: “A Hundred Years of Psychotherapy - and the world is getting worse.”

Some other scientists and historians may not agree as well, since they recognize a huge evolution during the last century of human life on earth. Most of the incredible discoveries in technology and all that is related to it have been made in the last century, with an increasing curve. And despite wars and famine, the number of living human creatures on this planet is constantly growing.

Ups and downs in human evolution

As regards what I see, and there is no need for psychoanalysis to confirm it either, the world is going up and down a roller coaster development.

Scientific and technological matters have made an incredible advancements. Nevertheless, humans as a species have lived a great regression to their most instinctual parts and still play the war game. Through war, soldiers and victims seem to find a new profound sense of existing, says Hillman in his book “A Terrible Love of War.”

Meanwhile, some generous benefactors and lovers of human history are reproducing the paleolithic Cosquer’s Cave with 3D technology. They fear these messages from the past will soon be lost forever due to climate change.

Isn’t mankind adorable in its contradictory frailty?

Emotions

Emotions are the best and the worst aspects of human beings.

I like people expressing their happiness. Their positive feelings. The joy of living.

I wouldn’t mind also people being aware of their negative emotions. They are part of an ancestral brain surviving within ourselves.

What I can’t accept anymore is people unable to control their aggressivity and acting it out on other human brothers and sisters. I mean, really, we are still this beasty? It’s like 2000 years of history don’t matter at all, not to count the previous years of human presence on earth, of course.

Come on. I’m sure we can do much better than this!

Anger is not bad. It all depends on the use we make out of it. The surviving instinct has to be educated to express itself in a constructive way rather than a destructive one.

With a little effort, we could make it.

If you’re experiencing this kind of issue, I heartedly recommend you take responsibility for your emotions and try to work on their negative side. You will be amazed of the goals you can reach in life once you’ve learned how to direct your aggressivity towards constructiveness.

Spirituality

And what about spirituality in our life? Leaving aside agnostic people, can you feel the energy and the effort of all the people trying to connect with a dimension they can’t even see?

Many religions are working for the benefit of people, helping them reach their spiritual aspects as humans.

Some others still pretend to use religion as a means to create wars and conflicts among humans.

Like I said before, conflictual elements are living within our species.

I think the pursuit of spirituality has nothing to do with wars, so to speak.

Conclusion

I could have been a bit more poetic in describing all the good sides of mankind. They are actually the favorite part of the game of life. Today, though, I feel sad. My optimistic vibe hides behind the presence of inhuman behaviors in this desperate world. I wish you all to choose love instead of hate and to look for and develop the best part of yourself, not the worst.

Love and peace to the world.