The chance to focus on becoming truly Human beings

Question from the Internet:

“If medical science advanced to a point that everyone could live well and healthy to at least 120, what impact would that have on the world?”

I would say that instead of focusing on the number of years we live or survive we would need to focus on what we do with out years we exist through.

After all, just because we live beyond 100 years it does not mean we lived a “human” life or we contributed to anything. It is true that we can get into the Guinness World Book, or if we live in the Commonwealth we receive a congratulation from the Queen, but does that actually mean anything important?

We focus too much on our biological bodies, trying to make it live longer, trying to preserve it as best we can, “beautifying it” with exercises all kinds of augments and tattoos, we try to prove ourselves by becoming faster, stronger than others or even climbing higher and going further than anybody else. But for example other animals also live as long as we can or even longer, and usually they are most skillful and elegant in what they do when it comes to our biological abilities.

In short, by constantly focusing on our biological bodies and what we can achieve through we are actually missing the point. We are missing the actual purpose of our lives, which is to become truly Human beings. And becoming truly Human beings has nothing to do with our biological bodies or whatever we do with our bodies.

Becoming truly Human beings relates only to our goals, the meaning and purpose of life we pursue and how we relate to other human beings and the world in general outside of us.

Becoming truly Human beings is a process that can lead us to a state where we can actually, realistically sense our existence independent of our biological bodies, when we build such selfless, loving and unconditionally serving connection to others — above and against our inherently self-loving, self-serving and self-justifying egos — that we sense existence completely “outside of ourselves” in the desires, needs and viewpoints of others, also unrelated to their biological bodies.

Tis very realistic and tangible sense of existence is waiting for us right here and tight now, when we still exist — as basic, instinctive animals — in our biological bodies while at the same time developing the Human being in us, that can exist above the instinctive, subjective and egocentric limitations of time, space and motion.

So instead of focusing on how many years we can preserve this animal body of ours I would recommend to focus on developing the potential Human being in us!