The debut
Every creature that has ever existed on the Earth’s surface ever since it’s infancy, has had its own destiny, a figurative road to travel on, for the survival of their own species, or as a means of help to others.
Evolution found apes to be fascinating. Other animals simply walked on the braid of destiny, but they marveled with every step, tugged, squeezed, even tried eating the rope, but evolution payed them no mind as she noticed the apes would be resuming their walk after their curiosity died down.
That changed when evolution stood face to face with a bizarre looking one. I had less hair, smaller hands and jaws, yet the clearest, most determined gaze she had ever seen. Then it opened its mind and everything went south: “Who am I? Why am I here? Who constructed the rope? How did it begin? How? When? WHY? And so, it untangled the braid and cut into a thread before evolution could even react.
Blooming
What is amazing is that this bold creature wasn’t even the human we know today. Charles Darwin tells us in The Origin of Species that apes didn’t turn into humans in this lengthy process, but at a certain moment in time, had a common ancestor that shifted course. Our primate friends chose to continue on the original path and despite possessing a certain intelligence and self-awareness that set us apart, the space that stood between our string and the animal world’s was thin. Only after millions of years of development: bipedal walking, articulating words, cultivating languages, using the environment to our advantage instead of just adapting to it; all of these nourished us into who we are today.
Since then, humanity flourished in ways no one could’ve ever predicted as it began twisting, turning, cutting and tying together multiple paths to travel on. Curiosity has become as important for our sense of self and survival as breathing is, but indulging in it to the point of insatiability caused a labyrinth, built on lacunas or excesses, to incarnate into our very beings.
Mind and soul
The intellect and spirit are like magnets. They act differently based on the position you place them in. Unfortunately, in most situations, both get to have the same charge polls stand face to face. That is the major problem that causes an existential “hunger” unique to us, a conflict between curiosity and stability. Our instinctual side makes us fear what is unknown or out of our control, while our curiosity fills our lives with boredom and emptiness in each moment when new knowledge is “gatekept” by the universe.
Not safe enough
That’s how the obsession with road making began.
Humanity considers this course of action logical because multiple paths means multiple directions, options to explore and discover. However, once you have made enough, they are meant to become the safety net you fall onto to protect yourself from mistakes, which doesn’t really happen. In kneading more and more of them, we created for ourselves a scenario similar to the Penrose stairs and didn’t account for two essential questions: Where would they all end? How many more can we actually make?
Remember, feel and expect
We should never try to stock something infinite in what is not. We would lose our marbles if we did. For our intellect to be able to create multiple alleys without an overload, everything our system processes as a rational and sentient being must be filtered. If not, our brains will suffer the same fate as phones who are close to reaching their storage limit. Too many photos, videos, experiences stocked in one place can influence the way it functions or if it can or can’t accomplish its purpose.
The universe has molded existence in a way that our undeveloped minds don’t have the ability to comprehend yet and we can’t build any solid and durable road if we don’t understand its foundation, direction in which its supposed to lead and at what point it should end. Building roads is an addiction all humanity has, that manifests thought the flaws that we have inside us and in relation to the people around us. This is what will cause the ground beneath us to crumble unless we try other already made roads instead of creating a new one or try to intertwine ours with another more often.
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