If my zoological mind came to work, I'd say humans are just animals. We want what all animals want and thats to reproduce, live as long as possible and not get eaten. The last two kind of link together, I'd go as far as to say you can't have one without the other. Actually to be fair you can't reproduce if you are being eaten either (unless you were really quick), but you can reproduce and then be eaten... you can't live as long as possible and then get eaten though, unless you get eaten at the exact moment that you were going to die of an unavoidable natural cause anyway. Humans rarely get eaten anymore, but I'd still say avoiding it would be in my top three life goals.
I highly doubt these basic animalistic necessities are included in what most people want to achieve with their lives; I'd say most peoples would be to get a good job, have kids and do as much as you can with your life. Thats good, but it's almost impossible to do everything you want to do in life in this modern day society we live in. I've been thinking that maybe humans have complicated life to much. If you watch a cat, they basically do what they like, live for free and sleep comfortably all day. You can't really top that. Cats have got life down perfectly, most animals have actually. Humans are the only animals that thought: 'You know what? This isn't enough for me, I want more.' and by wanting more, they only succeeded in getting less.
Now, my favourite people in all of history have to be the native american plains indians. Not only did they have life down perfectly, but they also had awesome names like 'Red Cloud' and 'Sitting Bull' and my personal favourite 'Drinks Water'. They moved around, hunting buffalo and having visions. They had an abundance of women to choose from, all of them more than happy to do all the work and look after the kids. There was a lot of kids. Other than the odd skirmish with another tribe, they were relatively at peace. Life was simple, but ignorance is bliss. They didn't want anymore, because to them, moving around with the buffalo is all that mattered. They didn't live very long lives but who cares? Life was awesome and they lived it to the full. The white man took that away from them and tried to replace the buffalo with Jesus. When they said no they were branded as savages and shot on sight, women, children and all. Quite macabre. Guess what society we are derived from though? When I say we I don't technically mean we, I mean Americans, but Americans are basically English but with less brains and and more highly developed trigger fingers.
This dude knew how to live.
You know what, reading back that last paragraph I might have a new favourite word: Skirmish. It's truly a great word. Another thing that caught my eye was that if I was to say that this society would be better with the women looking after the kids and doing all the work, I'd be castrated and called a sexist, pig-headed misogynist. I don't believe they should, obviously. In indian society women were well respected. They brought you into the world after all, why shouldn't they be? Women are great, especially at my age they are pretty much the be all and end all of my waking thoughts. Okay now I sound like a creep, let's just say women are important.
Within most social animals groups, women rule the roost. Termites, Ants and Bees all have a queen, Elephants have a matriarch and Meerkats have a dominant female. Theres a few backwards ones such as Lions, where males rule and women do all the work. Lemurs are female led until one day of the year when the males go crazy and demand sex. If Human females were sexually active for only one day of the year, then I don't suppose it would matter that much. We, other than dolphins are the only animals that have recreational sex. This to me, shows why humans and dolphins are the two most intelligent species on the planet.
Despite all of this knowledge on sex and females, I'm not the luckiest guy when it comes to the other sex of my own species. Not that I get lucky with any other species, that would be wrong. Very wrong. Still, I have more female friends than male friends. I suppose thats down to my social group being female heavy.
I'd love to go on but I'm pretty sure It will get too personal if I delve any deeper. I'll save the personal stuff for another entry. One last thought, if modern society named people in the same way that the indians did (through visions coming into adulthood), I wonder what people would be called? 'Plays Xbox' or 'Parked Car' doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
Again I leave you with a song, this time by a little known band called 'Halls'. They are pretty good.
Deck the halls will boughs of Lifeblood...
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