Baby like.
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Awareness, always in state of "aw", glowing eyes and fearless.
We have lost so much on the way, we've trained ourselves to be so dependent of our feelings and the feelings of others that we've lost touch with our true and real senses.
History repeats itself.
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Just as we teach our kids boundaries to distinguish between the bad and the good,  fear, bad patterns, and the development of their social skills and morals.
Even faith is taught by the adults that became parents from one second to another, and the only instructions we have are the ones that came in our package when we were born.
If we think about the history of society (if we could only go that far) by the time history gets us we'll be farther  and farther away from where we originally came from.
Sad, eh? Maybe not.
We have the capability to create catastrophe or celebration, to become coldly individual as a society or to come together for a cause, and all the amazing advancements in communicative technologies do nothing for us if we've lost the art of communication.
Every known entity or our times smiles for the camera, but we can't smile at each other on the bus, for fear of that gesture 'communicating' the wrong intention.
What are we so afraid of? Do we need rescuing? Or just a cosmic kick in the pants to see how we are treating each other? Was the Terminator right: "It is in your nature to destroy yourselves.
" Is it even fear that generates these impulses? Do Hollywood producers have a formula for how much money each death in a movie will net them? We are obsessed with all that is considered 'wrong' in our societies.
Diseases, weapons, murder, sexual violence...
gets your blood going just seeing it written down.
Optimistic people see what most of us can't (or don't want to).
  The "optimist" has an addiction to "feeling good"; to lifting his head and taking a deep breath to feel himself alive, which is often more than enough to get him through his day.
The rest of us? Well, quite the opposite (as sad as it sounds).
We love attention.
No matter how, from whom or at what price; attention it is.
Babies cry, kids get loud, teenagers use drama and rebellion (uh! "Life is so unfair!".
One of my favorites: "I didn't ask to be born!") And after being teenagers and getting totally cool with the idea that we were thrown into this world against our will, we go to graduate school where we really start to learn new tricks to call attention and/or to manipulate.
Some decide to become sick, depressed, angry, bitter, aloof, distant, hostile, etc.
The person sitting besides you complaining about the weather.
Why does he complain? Because going against the 'flow' is a sure-fire way to become the center of attention.
  Those who agree with us are our rivals, but as gratifying as it is to hear our own opinions expressed by someone else, it's boring.
"Get your own opinion! This one's mine!" After all, who wouldn't be upset at someone else getting more attention than us for something that was our idea to begin with?  Only we have the power to become better (or bitter!), to feel better about ourselves, to become free from our own thoughts, or to take control of them.
It is our own responsibility  to initiate a change,  to teach our offspring  to realize new ways of living and thinking; in fact, new ways of becoming better humans, and thereby enriching our own lives along with the lives of those around us.
Because "humanity" rests on us: Humans.