To the Gods Among Us
The word "help" refers to a very often experienced feeling of vulnerability. Our heads look up towards a particular superpower in so many situations. It is the one who we feel/believe is obliged to aid us at this time. For He is the one with all the answers. In fact, a "God" is nothing but to whom the natural cry for help is sounded in any troubled situation. The thing we go to immediately. The Miracle Worker. The Magic Man/Woman. The Omnipotent. Almighty. Allah. Jesus. Shiva. Thanos. Thor. Loki. Logic(For my Atheist friends). T. Henry(Arsenal <3). Add/Delete/Replace as you see fit.
It's not uncommon to see this situation recurring every other day in our lives. And it has absolutely nothing to do with your version of evolution of this world. It's simple human nature. You try to complete a task. You fail. You try again. You fail again. Repeat procedure 'x' times. What is the most common reaction after that? (Apart from the breaking of stuff around you due to frustration:Yes, I'm looking at you gamers. :P) You call out. You curse along with it, but you do call out for aid of some kind. And it doesn't have to be a calling out using a trumpet. No, I mean in the most quiet corner of your brain, there's a feeling of "Shit, I can't do this anymore. I need to think of another way." And the "way" you choose beyond that is more often than not the reason why you complete(or don't) the task after that.
Now, much like most of the things humans do in the 21st century, there's not a lot of questions posed about this behavior as to why infact we do this. Or even "Why is it almost a reflex-A call for help?" or "How come we don't look to think on our feet and get it done ourselves?". And obviously, I've been busy asking myself these for a quite sometime now.
So, in my Q&A with myself, (and a few unsuspecting others) I learnt a simple fact: Sometimes, its too much. Our brain starts to label stuff and tasks as "Easy", "Doable", "Tough", "Needs Assistance". And for all the people out there who believe they can manage to do just anything at all on their own, well, Please let us all in on your secrets. Mankind needs that kind of mental strength. Circle back to this one in a bit.
When the brain says "Needs Assistance", it doesn't exactly bind you to have that assistance in the form of another human being. Haven't you ever given that extra tight jar another squeeze with your own hands? The same hands which failed repeatedly only moments earlier? So what makes you think they'll succeed now? Well of course, you're using a cloth to make better contact with less moisture. That sounds like assistance to me.
You see, what we don't realize is that, in calling for aid, we are only calling out because we believe we have the capability to do the task and that we just need a push. A little bit of help. And this help can be of any form. Not just another body to help you make the broth. You know the saying. It doesn't always work that way.
The tenet here is that the "GOD" we call out to actually resides inside of us. There's a silent power buried deep inside us all. We all have a vision of GOD-or even omnipotence. I believe that's why we all see ourselves either being subject to that power or utilizers of it. We all have been through that phase where we do stuff and don't completely know where we got the cojones to do it. Yes, adrenaline is a factor, but something in your mind eventually triggered it to work, didn't it? We don't give ourselves enough credit and that is why our hands go to the heavens instead of pointing to our chests.
Nike got right. But I'd still like to amend it.
YOU (can) do it.
ALITER:
Effectively, there's also an upside to actually calling out for help whilst in a team. I'm going to run with an example which my gaming readers will enjoy. In any of your FPS(First Person Shooter) games, or actually any Army/War-based game, when is the Air Strike called? Oh and before you answer that, "Hunter", don't you communicate with the "Overlord" while calling for the aforementioned Strike?
Soldiers call for an Air Strike when the enemy is too powerful to be dealt with on their own. When they're being outmatched and out-numbered in the field of battle. It is the belief that the "Overlord" can make their problems go away which compels them to send out the signals effectively saying "SAVE OUR ASS" (AFTER ACTUALLY PUTTING US IN THIS SHIT).
This just shows that sometimes, it's not bad to call in for that little bit extra.
It's not uncommon to see this situation recurring every other day in our lives. And it has absolutely nothing to do with your version of evolution of this world. It's simple human nature. You try to complete a task. You fail. You try again. You fail again. Repeat procedure 'x' times. What is the most common reaction after that? (Apart from the breaking of stuff around you due to frustration:Yes, I'm looking at you gamers. :P) You call out. You curse along with it, but you do call out for aid of some kind. And it doesn't have to be a calling out using a trumpet. No, I mean in the most quiet corner of your brain, there's a feeling of "Shit, I can't do this anymore. I need to think of another way." And the "way" you choose beyond that is more often than not the reason why you complete(or don't) the task after that.
Now, much like most of the things humans do in the 21st century, there's not a lot of questions posed about this behavior as to why infact we do this. Or even "Why is it almost a reflex-A call for help?" or "How come we don't look to think on our feet and get it done ourselves?". And obviously, I've been busy asking myself these for a quite sometime now.
So, in my Q&A with myself, (and a few unsuspecting others) I learnt a simple fact: Sometimes, its too much. Our brain starts to label stuff and tasks as "Easy", "Doable", "Tough", "Needs Assistance". And for all the people out there who believe they can manage to do just anything at all on their own, well, Please let us all in on your secrets. Mankind needs that kind of mental strength. Circle back to this one in a bit.
When the brain says "Needs Assistance", it doesn't exactly bind you to have that assistance in the form of another human being. Haven't you ever given that extra tight jar another squeeze with your own hands? The same hands which failed repeatedly only moments earlier? So what makes you think they'll succeed now? Well of course, you're using a cloth to make better contact with less moisture. That sounds like assistance to me.
You see, what we don't realize is that, in calling for aid, we are only calling out because we believe we have the capability to do the task and that we just need a push. A little bit of help. And this help can be of any form. Not just another body to help you make the broth. You know the saying. It doesn't always work that way.
The tenet here is that the "GOD" we call out to actually resides inside of us. There's a silent power buried deep inside us all. We all have a vision of GOD-or even omnipotence. I believe that's why we all see ourselves either being subject to that power or utilizers of it. We all have been through that phase where we do stuff and don't completely know where we got the cojones to do it. Yes, adrenaline is a factor, but something in your mind eventually triggered it to work, didn't it? We don't give ourselves enough credit and that is why our hands go to the heavens instead of pointing to our chests.
Nike got right. But I'd still like to amend it.
YOU (can) do it.
ALITER:
Effectively, there's also an upside to actually calling out for help whilst in a team. I'm going to run with an example which my gaming readers will enjoy. In any of your FPS(First Person Shooter) games, or actually any Army/War-based game, when is the Air Strike called? Oh and before you answer that, "Hunter", don't you communicate with the "Overlord" while calling for the aforementioned Strike?
Soldiers call for an Air Strike when the enemy is too powerful to be dealt with on their own. When they're being outmatched and out-numbered in the field of battle. It is the belief that the "Overlord" can make their problems go away which compels them to send out the signals effectively saying "SAVE OUR ASS" (AFTER ACTUALLY PUTTING US IN THIS SHIT).
This just shows that sometimes, it's not bad to call in for that little bit extra.
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