Since the dawn of time, man has been learning to accumulate, found a rock? Stored, found some sticks? Stored, found a mammoth teeth? Stored. We love to accumulate, this is how we humans are. No matter, how unique each one of us claims to be, we share common traits when it comes to certain things. Yes, we are social creatures it has been established a long time ago and socially we learn. The very first thing we have learned as a social creature is to borrow, we are into borrowing business since day one on this planet. We have been borrowing everything ranging from utensils to weapons to food recipes, for centuries. The extent of borrowing is so much that we are nothing but bunch of debtors and I am not speaking in terms of money, I am speaking in terms of everything, literally!
Bold statement? Well, allow me to explain myself. Your name consists of first name, middle name and last name. First name also know as given name was given to you by your parents or your guardians, the day you were born, same applies to your middle name and your last name is not even yours but was given to your family a long time ago.
The language that you speak so proudly and fluently is not yours but you've borrowed it from the developers of the language, remember learning alphabets as a child? Thought that you think are nothing but an outcome of social influence on you, words that you carefully choose while writing a masterpiece are borrowed and not just words but also their several meanings. I wonder whoever came up with the word "aggrandize" and what must be the story behind it's development? Got a new haircut and feeling all confident within yourself? Well it's the skills of your expensive barber. All the foods that you cook were once somebody else's recipe! Tattoos on your body is somebody else's art. At this point you must be thinking "well, fuck you asshole, I make more money in a week than you make in a year and it's all mine, MINE!!!!". Well true, that but technically government creates all that money and let you use it as a bearer not the owner!
Although, we are living a second hand life but it doesn't mean all of it is bad, we learn with others experiences and avoid making mistakes. We are living a persistent second hand life that is why we keeps on adding quality(second hand but equally good) to it.
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Imagine leading a life in medieval era (wait wrong example, Game of Thrones Season 7 is almost here and everybody wanna live in that era) scratch that and imagine living a life in stone-age among saber-tooth tiger, mammoth and such animals with nothing but a bare ass and a lousy spear made out of stones and even worse just imagine eating your hunt without cooking it, trust me not everything tastes like chicken when it's raw!
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