By: Alexx Pacifici

"In Grand Fits of Rage"

You see,

I am unbelievably baffled in the fact that the most intelligent organism on the planet with a distinct voice-box capable of making sounds, and subsequently language, would still rather resort to violence to resolve an infantile quarrel. I am angrily perplexed at the mere certainty that a sophisticated animal like ourselves would throw a wrapper on the floor and justify himself by saying "the janitor will pick it up."

Why is it that man cannot see the bigger picture? Perhaps because it is too big. In fact, it's far too big to be seen completely, but can't we at most try to see part of it? So what is this gargantuan picture you ask?

Everything.

Picture for a minute the entire universe and know that it hangs in the balance. It is nothing more than giant objects rotating around other bigger objects. This universe of ours is so unimaginably vast that if our minds were able to comprehend how vast it is, they would simply explode. And in this blissful darkness lies a planet whose attributes are like no other. This planet of course is the one and only Earth - home to millions of species. What a beautiful thing.

It saddens me to know that there are innumerable amounts of Earthlings out there who don't even know that McDonald's coffee is hot -let alone the whole universe existing. They go about their daily business refusing to acquire knowledge in "certain fields" because they presume they won't "use it" in their lives. By saying this, it allows man to find an excuse not to learn, followed by the inability to understand, and thus resulting in ignorance. No man should learn because of his profession or place in the world, but because he has a brain and it is his sole privilege and obligation to know.

Maybe if man knew that he was no more than an array of billions of microscopic cells assembled in the perfect order would he truly appreciate life. Perhaps if man was aware about a tree's air-replenishing system. Perhaps if man knew what the planet had to go through in the last 4 and a half billion years just so then monkeys could walk about it - eventually evolving into man. Only then would he acknowledge life's beauty.

Imagine if man knew that he was simply a fluke of nature. Imagine if man realized that through the course of his evolution he developed a beautiful, fully-functioning brain capable of recognizing its own existence. If man knew this, he would be happy. But man believes in money, and in power, and in violence. And in a world flooded with material it is at the utter impossibility for us to see what life is truly about: Living and Learning.

So please, in grand fits of rage, I vocalize to you: learn.