Smart enough to solve problems even as a baby.

If your life does not align with the norms of your social groups, it does not automatically mean you are wrong, bad, or worthless. You are the one who perceives everything about your life, especially if you let social standards dictate your self-worth. Over time, societies change and evolve; if you are ahead of the curve and feel your social group is not keeping up, it makes you right, not wrong.

Believing that your life is a direct gift from God, with free will as a bonus, automatically makes you the person in charge. As the CEO of your life, you will find your worth without struggles and achieve personal happiness and contentment simultaneously because you take pride in being directly connected to God. If you miss the feeling of being fulfilled or think you are merely an extension of your social group, your self-worth is highly dictated by others’ opinions. You should wake up from the dream of belonging to a group and see yourself as a mortal individual responsible for every action, gain, or loss in your temporary life.

Inspiration from a Baby’s Determination

A video of a baby wanting to get off the bed inspired this blog and reminded me of another one I wrote, titled “Five Bucks.” In the video, the baby tries to get off the bed but finds the floor too far. He throws a pillow on the ground, looks around, throws another pillow and his soother, then a third pillow. With no more pillows left, he breaks his fall and prevents getting hurt, achieving a soft landing.

Can we use this much reasoning, planning, and brainpower to achieve our goals even as a baby? How did he come up with the plan, achieving it, and even remembering to take the soother along? At what age do we start to think and plan to achieve our goals? I am no expert in that area, so I will leave that to experts. I am just starting this blog from what I have observed. Even as babies, we are reasonably smart, yet as adults, we willingly let others pull our strings for their political purposes.

The Power of Independent Thought

We passionately want to be right yet fail to see the political motives of those who use us, committing spiritual crimes against innocents. We are told that religion is an area that cannot be questioned, yet are encouraged to harm those with different beliefs. Where is the individual created as an independent entity with free will and personal sense of justice?

This baby’s video is inspiring because even at an age with no awareness of religion, nationality, color, or gender, he is still able to think independently to achieve his task. In my previous blog, “Five Bucks,” I described this ability differently. If you are standing on a riverbank needing to get to the other side, you must think, plan, and then act on your plan. You can gather branches, make a raft, get a big stick, and row yourself to the other side. Metaphorically, each of us has this “five bucks” – the smarts, strength, and ability to live for ourselves and help others around us.

Collective Strength and Individual Worth

If the wisdom, power, energy, and ability to achieve is in all of us, then a community contributing their “five bucks” can build a bridge so everyone can cross the river. It’s a logical fact that a single individual is weaker than a group of people working as a unit. Our smarts still come from that “five bucks” we brought along before birth. In today’s world, humanity must work together against group politics and join as a whole. Our problems, like infectious disease outbreaks or global warming, need evolved solutions.

A human body is a good example of the functioning of humanity as a whole. A human cell is meaningless yet meaningful on its own, with the potential to create a whole, functioning human body. Our politics of belonging to groups has served its purpose by holding us back, helping us adapt to our growing knowledge rhythmically. Sudden knowledge influx can be useless or destructive. The new paradigm is nature forcing us to think beyond group politics, become aware of equal human rights, and fight together against present-day threats.

The Importance of Personal Identity

With passed-on knowledge and belief systems, we often put our real identity at the end of assumed and political identities. If you look at today’s world, you should see this as an opportunity to adapt to evolutionary processes rather than a downfall of humanity. The simple logic is if you can’t understand God, don’t kill each other over God or evolving knowledge. Instead, try to understand yourself and dig into your potential.

Learning your potential starts from examining our history and present-day placement. The answers are all around you; you just have to be open-minded. We all have the potential to use our knowledge for right and wrong reasons, so the need to understand the forces behind our actions is greater than ever. If we can’t absorb our evolutionary knowledge or if we blindly follow our group’s passed-on knowledge, we hinder our evolution.

The Role of Spirituality

I believe religions have a place, but spirituality is the real deal. Following the spiritual path allows us to evolve and find our individual rhythm. Worship and prayer based solely on taught knowledge miss the essence of personal effort and understanding. The purpose of your life is to bring God’s spirituality to life through your physical actions. You make God meaningful to yourself and others around you; you are the physical component of the spiritual God.

Much of worshiping is tied to the desire for more physical things in life to secure an uncertain future. Yet, logically, the future with security is not for mortals, and you are, in fact, mortal. This raises questions about God’s existence. I point to humans as evolving entities with incomplete knowledge, so making strong assertions or claiming assumptions as facts is not right. Our knowledge is constantly evolving, and scientific discoveries often challenge religious theories.

Balancing Passion and Compassion

Understanding mortality can make us compassionate individually. It is imperative to assume responsibility for learning. Each of us comes with knowledge from our known and unknown resources from birth. If you can reason even as a baby, you have the foundation for independent thought.

Passion, if harnessed correctly, should be rooted in love and compassion. It should be foundational knowledge in all human planning, governing, and individual actions. The world and humanity would be further ahead if we all used compassion generously. We must understand the driving forces behind our actions and use compassion to guide our passions.

Evolving Beyond Group Politics

We are evolving, yet our religious beliefs often remain static because we are taught they are God’s words, not to be questioned. Yet, human advancement in science, technology, medicine, and other fields has been possible because someone pushed the boundaries of knowledge. If we are not allowed to explore, we cannot excel or advance.

Belief systems need spirituality, not politics. Politics mixed with belief systems is wrong. We must harness our passion for compassion and understand the influences of group politics before every personal action. The individual is often driven by personal insecurities, wanting to fit in and be admired. This individual problem seeps into our social groups, which are made up of individuals.

Our evolution is only possible if we push and adopt to our rhythm, continuously pursuing progress, even if it is left for future generations. If you don’t poke, you can’t evolve. Disregarding spirituality is concerning because it’s the only thing that brings calm to our passion. We must understand that our knowledge is incomplete and constantly evolving. Belief systems must evolve with time, just like human beings.

We must value human individuals over group politics and not kill each other over evolving knowledge. Individually digging for the truth about God without assumptions is a journey with limited brain power and evolving understanding. We must put God on a higher pedestal and see science as a part of God’s will, pushing human potential. Our evolution in every department of life must be in harmony with spiritual growth.

Believing in God and keeping an open mind to changes and evolution will bring happiness in all circumstances. Our ultimate treasure is happiness, and we must strive to find it by embracing evolution and understanding our role as evolving entities.