That's one of the things that makes us
ordinary:
there are so many of us that at first glance, we're really not all that
different from one another. Yet one of the things that makes us
miraculous is the mere fact that we exist at all, that we can make
distinctions, that we can create, that we can have independent
thoughts, that we have the capacity for language, that we have the
power to transform our lives, indeed that we have the power to forge
our own futures.
There's something else that makes us
ordinary.
It's if we don't manage to survive, we'll die off - just like the many
other species of plants and animals who co-exist with us on the planet.
There's also something else that makes us miraculous, which is that
unlike all the other species of plants and animals which co-exist with
us on the planet, we're arguably the only species with the ability to
transform our lives and Life itself. A palm tree can not transform its
life. It has no language capacity for that. A warthog can't transform
its life. It has no language capacity for that. A human being on the
other hand, can transform its life. It has the language capacity for
that. That is miraculous - whether fully appreciated or not. It's
miraculous that we have the capacity for language.
Now with all the above distinguished, it's arguably a lot easier to
grok (as Robert Heinlein may have said) our
ordinariness
than it is to grok the full extent of our miraculousness. Human beings
are
ordinary
- in the sense that we are a dime a dozen, we each have two eyes, a
nose, a mouth, arms and legs etc. But it's our miraculousness that's so
much harder to see at first glance, even though it's the quality which
differentiates us the most from any other species.
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