The Conscious Crow: Evolution

Reminding you to grow

“All of life is suffering,” and every creature including humans experience a series of hardships that must be taken in order to achieve any sort of growth or new strand of evolution. When we are born we have many trials to overcome and an array of steps to undergo before we can successfully exist on our own. We learn the basic elements of survival and how to operate as a human being in the culture to which we are born.  Eventually, we adapt to a position where we can do these things independently, effortlessly and without much thought.  We unconsciously walk, speak and eat and think nothing of it.  We forget that we endured countless initiations and tests that brought us to this very point, paired with an immense amount of determination to surpass that element of challenge.  Because we have evolved so far past infancy, we forget that to read and understand these words took time and effort.  Even at this point where it appears we so “easily” exist because we’ve come so far in our growth- we are still faced with challenges everyday.

It may not appear immediately the depth to which any individual or living creature has, or still continues, to struggle.  Yet, farther than the eye can see there is always a story reaching out and a constant change that’s occurring.  From an outside perspective it may appear an easy feat: how certain people have found financial, physical or mental success.  That what brought them to that point was nothing more than luck and they aren’t deserving of the position life has handed them.  Yet, even on this other side of “perfection,” we aren’t aware of are the challenges they still face.  Majority of the time we reach immediate conclusions without looking past the cover of the book.  We take one look at another, rarely questioning the story behind the person; the trials and challenges that led to that point, or the life endured prior.  When we form face-value opinions on others based on the outward and physical appearances, we see only one small percentage and portion of the person in their entirety.  Without taking the time to truly see or understand what lies beyond the physical, we will never see eye to eye.

Everything is a result; a series of efforts that have accumulated over time to become what is being observed.  These opinions are nothing more than stacked layers of angles, grown from some learned perspective.  We take and tend to alternate versions of observation and evaluation as if each new perspective is another branch in a tree.  If we decide to branch out and take this next step of evolution then we must continue to push ourselves past our immediate mindset and deep-seated opinions.  When we perceive even wider and gain a deeper perspective into one other’s life, we surpass yet another challenge; we stretch beyond these physical constraints and the conclusions that follow, reaching greater heights than ever before.