Last night I was watching a show about how humans have changed the Earth. They asked the question, “What is our purpose?” They were not asking the question individually but for our entire species. Their answer was absolutely correct but at the same time disturbing. Their response was, “Exactly the same as every living thing. To reproduce to continue the existence of our species.” It had nothing to do with our grander goals as human beings. The purpose says nothing about love. On the other hand, they did point out that babies are helpless and need someone to care for them for several years. It was instead a bleak answer to the question, “What is our purpose?”
They did say that the process of evolution would continue, and it would either render us extinct or further adapt us to this planet. Suppose we continue down the path of further warming. In that case, it will render us extinct long before evolution can provide us an answer to living on the warmer Earth. I don’t like that answer.
There is a further question they could ask. Have you done your part to continue the existence of our species? I have to answer that question negatively. I have just one child, a son. However, to continue the existence of our species, my wife and I should’ve had two-plus children. The plus is needed to make up for the number of children who die before they can reproduce.
It is a gray November day here, and it fits the answer. Have you fulfilled your purpose?
