basic instincts - II...

We all are descendants of the farmers, hunters and nomads. That’s what we were in the beginning of the struggle. Farmers! Hunters! Nomads!

It’s when we had enough to keep ourselves alive physically that the struggle for survival changed from physical to mental. In the beginning the struggle was only for the food, security and to keep the species flourishing. And no doubt when this shift happened the strength also demanded a shift from physical to mental. Today mental strength plays more important role than physical strength when it comes to survival. Creativity is the necessity and everyone wants to make a mark of his/her own. Though not everyone comes to make a name in this world yet everyone needs a healthy identity to survive and grow.

No matter what the survival needs have become today – from food to fashion, from security to having own house, from things to learn from, to things to earn from – the fact remains buried deep in every human heart that we are the sons of farmers, hunters and nomads. And we cannot deny that, that instinct stays right there with us wherever we go, whatever we do, however we live.

Nomads made the ways between farmers and hunters. Some of those nomads became businessmen, some entertainers. Hunters’ curiosity for new lands was aroused and wars were waged. Farmers came in each others’ contact and ideas were shared. Mergers of tribes happened to make villages. Mergers of villages happened into states and states into nations. That’s how we see the world today – an extrapolated imagery of man’s primary instincts of being a farmer, nomad and hunter.