we have limitations as human beings…
personally, I am limited by my loss of hearing but even hearing people
have limitations… they don’t hear as well as dogs or cats or lions or…
and we not only have physically limitations, but we have other limitations…
for example, the Romans or Greeks or Egyptians had only ground transportation
to move people and goods… cows, horses, carts, people pulling carts…
for most of human history, there was a limitation on how far and how fast
people and goods could go…you had boats and the like but it was still limited…
today we are less limited in the ways we can transport people and goods…
we can, in many ways overcome our limitations by technical means…
we have glasses to overcome bad eyesight and hearing aids to overcome
bad hearing and medical techniques to overcome a lot of medical limitations…
and we can use tools like a telescope and microscope to overcome our limitations
in seeing a long ways and seeing the very small…the entire advancement of
the human race can be considered as a means of overcoming our limitations…
so, we see that overcoming limitations is in large part what makes us and our
technology today…so what limitations are you overcoming?
limitations don’t necessarily need to be physical, they can be mental,
psychological, emotional… but the process of becoming must involved
overcoming limitations… the battle to become human means overcoming
our limitations…even if those limitations are being human… so what do
we need to do to overcome being human? the process of evolution is all
about overcoming limitations…
so what are you overcoming? what limitations are you trying to overcome?
perhaps that is the meaning of life…the simple act of overcoming your limitations…
whatever they are… mental, physical, emotional, psychological…and limitations
of your society and the environment you exists in… we are always in the process of
overcoming some limitation of some sort… become aware of what limitations
you are trying to overcome…be it social or environmental or personal…
Kropotkin