Express Philosophy

The lifestyle we have chosen has led us to a feeling of misery most of our times. The office CCTV camera had revealed that the staffs touch their phones every 4 mins in one observation. A study found that d uring peak times this number could go up to once every six or seven seconds, with some users unlocking their devices up to 900 times over the course of a day.   The information was collected by Android app Locket, which monitored how many times its 150,000 users checked their phone over in a day.  What people do with their phones may be personal but most attend to pings generated from social media sites, text messages and machines updates.  In fact s ocial media has evolved as a good respite to continue the euphoric mood and keep the miserable feeling away. I wonder often what would be the state of most of the humanity without it now. I see the social media has triggered chatting, sharing, travel frenzy, countless activities and nameless copycat actions as a pass time

My motivation to write all about myself was to share the mere experience of being human. As a zoologist I studied animals of all forms, but humans eluded me. I grew curious as I lived my life, caught between the animal and the cultural halves of being a human. We are bizarre beings; our thoughts are habitually unfounded and our actions have a way of their own . We do lot of thinking but our actions are often inappropriate. We hate other humans but end up copying them. We seem to invite chaos but lecture on organization. We look for competition but relish cooperation. We talk of privacy but post every activity online. We chase pleasure for happiness and seek happiness through pleasure. We are a bag of confusion. Then how did we become what we are? Our living needs are of animal origin but we have elevated ourselves higher through the power of our mind. Mind is what made us human , a being, self-aware, conscious, intelligent. But we fail to explain why we are ready to jum