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What if We Let Go of the Idea that Anything Can Be Unnatural?
After all, if something’s genuinely unnatural, it can’t exist.
If you can’t tell by now, I’m a curious person. I’m curious about everything, but what I find incredibly fascinating is people — like you. Think about it. There’s no one else on the planet exactly like you. You’re unique in every sense of the word, and you are equally as valuable to our world as I am and everyone else. Isn’t that exquisite?
Sure, we have many physical, mental, and behavioral similarities since we’re the same species, but the combination of your personal values, imagination, quirks, beliefs, and experiences belong to you and you alone.
This is true for almost 8 billion of us.
Man is the only animal that blushes — or needs to.
-Mark Twain
Yet, instead of celebrating this simple truth. Countless people hide the best parts of themselves out of fear — fear of rejection, fear of failure, fear of being different. Who can blame them after one glance at the state of our current shared reality?
So, given my interest in the topic, it might come as no surprise that I enjoyed Yuval Noah Harari’s book, Sapiens — A Brief History of Humankind. Harari makes several thought-provoking…
