At our most base and fundamental level we are simple and simply creatures.  Creatures of God, creatures of Nature, creatures defined or described however you like, but creatures nonetheless.  Have you ever felt like a creature?

What drives us, what makes us get out of bed in the morning?  We wake up without much choice but getting up is something we choose to do.  Then, further, we get ready for our day and get moving with doing the things we need to do.  True, some do nothing as illness or depression overcomes them, but most of us do something in an effort to get something done.  What is it that you do?

Often, when convinced at how tough I have it sometimes I realize from watching others, from thinking back on life and looking like I do at history, that I really have it quite easy.  My kids have it a heckuva lot easier than I did but I still don’t know if their having so many opportunities that I never did is a good thing or a bad thing.  Maybe it’s just a thing.

I can handle being a creature but when I look at my still-somewhat-innocent-looking progeny I find it hard to think of them as creatures despite the fact that a good bit of what they are they got from me.  So if I am a creature then surely they must have some creature blood running through them.  Now I’m getting concerned as the truth begins to overtake me.

And my wife?  Well, I don’t want to get into trouble here.

As I roam this earth though there are many creatures that I do see indeed.  They are everywhere: some more creaturish than the others, others becoming more creatured over time.

Creatures do not often think or consider things for a very long period of time.  They usually just react based upon many thousands of years of major release programing and the more recent patches that define them.  Eat, run, make noise or stay silent, attack, lay down, jump, sleep, drink,- all just pre-programmed reactions that are usually, but not always, the correct responses.  Creatures react without thinking; humans think but sometimes, it is true, without reacting.  Which is better?  Which is you?

This is the year for reaction my friends.  The time to think and do nothing has passed.

Creatures are also a good bit less lazy than humans.  They react, they react to survive and propagate the species.  It doesn’t get more basic than that.

So you can choose as a human to be more human, to think more and do less, or be more like the creature we all know that you are, that, indeed, we all are.  It’s not wrong.   In the final analysis it is simply just natural.

Humans wise up; creatures rise up.

I will accept the argument that neither should be done at the exclusion of the other.