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Man or machine...


We all have that phase when we listen to a  new song over and over again until the lyrics  become like that nursery rhyme we once had stuck in our brain when we were kids.The song becomes part of our routine, craving to hear it every waking moment of the day ( maybe that's just me) .Anyway, a few months ago, that song for me was Human by Christina Perri. I admit, that song may not be as catchy as i thought it was,but her lyrics got me hooked!Two months down the line i put my earphones on in a traffic jam and guess what song comes first on my playlist...
" But I'm only human And I bleed when I fall down I'm only human And I crash and I break down Your words in my head, knives in my heart You build me up and then I fall apart Cause I'm only human"Then my mind flashed back to an article i had read online ( can't put my fingers on where i had read it,sorry) Anyway, i remember this particular article because it featured 33 real life cases of how people can be outright mean and inconsiderate,.I am no saint and i have my share of mean tendencies, but this one struck my heart like a cold knife..being told that your own mother didn't love you and that's why she died after giving birth to you...?!?!?!?!?! Why would anyone say that? The reasons may be endless and maybe someone put it out there as one of those "YO MAMMA" jokes( which i  i honestly find appalling) 

 As the lyrics sank  in during that traffic jam, i realized two things; one is that, it's so easy being mean and inconsiderate when we fail to put ourselves in someone else's shoes even just for a minute.Secondly, it's so easy to let our hearts turn cold because we push away any warm feelings simply because we think it's a sign of weakness or being "too soft".I admit  the song is  somewhat depressing and won't take you to a "happy" place but that's what i like about some songs, the words really cut deep.The lyrics are like a translation for how, at times, it seems as though  people have a switch button on them..one minute they are human and fleshy, the next they turn into steel cold machines.It's so easy to switch between man and machine,ignoring feelings and emotions but in the end we are still human and we can't change.People run away from emotions like it's a plague, what we should do is just learn to keep their intensity at bay.Living life emotionless will only make us less humane.But what makes us less and less human is failing to put ourselves in someone else's shoes, not literally of course.
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