Nature and Habit

[phantasm]

How did we get here? How did this world become so freakishly complex?

Our circumstances have changed so rapidly, and yet human beings haven't changed much, if at all.

Human nature seems like a crystal, a diamond, a rigid shape. 

At least, that's how we often perceive it.

And yet our nature is shaped so much by our habits.

So, should we speak of human nature, or human habit?

Our lives are built by what we continually do. Every thought, word, action, is a brick in who we become.

So-- what do we want to become?

[anirbas]

~...to become

I want to become
retired from the world
to shrink my universe
to a microcosm of the rat race
no one allowed on my world
but the Hubs loved ones a friend
or two a couple of cats books and poetry

[artolmaeus]

I want to become able
to be the self that my self
believes is me, if me is just something
that is so damned hard to be
at every turn, for wish and burn
I have someone else to convince it impress
and can only be a sell-f
I want to become free of impossibility
of just being me
and me, is something I cannot be
maybe Elmo says it right on sesame Street somedays
If there is something beyond the I's
me thinks there well may be a way