Life as a Human Being

             How can I answer the question: who am I and where do I live? There are many different ways to answer it hut the easiest way is to say: I am Michelle O and I live in Feeding Hills, Massachusetts. That answer conjures up more questions. What is "Michelle O"? Just a name my parents gave me? And what is Massachusetts? Just a state? No one can give the real or correct answer to these questions. Everyone has their own idea of how we got here and what we are.
             We are human beings put here by God. Some may say that is true. Others think it was the "Big Bang Theory" or that we are a more complicated form of the ape. There is no right or wrong because no one has any proof. So maybe we really aren't here and everyone is living in each other's dreams. What is a hand or foot or mouth? How did these parts come to be part of our bodies? If you stop and think about yourself and where you are it is unreal because what is the skin that covers our internal organs that make us breath involuntary?
             I was brought up to believe that I am here because of God. But how were Adam and Eve put on this earth? Did God just pick them up and place them under a tree? I don't think so, hut what else should I believe? The "Big Bang Theory" states that we were just thrown on the earth just like that, no effort or thinking involved. Personally, the "Ape Theory" sounds most logical to me. We have a bodily resemblance to the ape and they walk on two feet and two legs just like us, or maybe we walk on two feet and two legs just like them. This may not fully or literally answer the question of who am I, but I am a human being.
             There are nine planets in our solar system and I live on the one called Earth, right? So I'm told, but why is it called "Earth?" And I live on one out of seven continents called North America in between two large bodies of water. On this continent is a country called the United States of America broken down into fifty states. I live in a little
             ...

More Essays:

APA     MLA     Chicago
Life as a Human Being. (1969, December 31). In MegaEssays.com. Retrieved 07:43, April 19, 2024, from https://www.megaessays.com/viewpaper/2446.html