Story 1: [My friend Vikram came up with this story]
Monkey & Apple: [Three hundred thousands years ago something like this would have happened.]
A monkey was standing on a branch of a tree looking at an apple fruit. The fruit looks beautiful, so much beautiful that he has never seen an apple like this one!
To reach there and get the apple fruit he has to take the longest jump of his life. He is thinking how tasty it would be. How proud he’d be to have it.
He takes the jump of his life and gets the apple. Every other monkey is looking at him wondering how delicious the apple would be for he put his life on stake for it.
He is holding the apple in his hand and looking at it. Something happens; something comes in his mind and he simply gives the apple to another monkey.
This is something extra-ordinary; it never has happened in history of monkeys that a monkey
has given his hard earned fruit to another monkey.
End of Monkey and Apple story.
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Story 2:
Phenomenon: [Movie]
The children (Al & Glory) realize that George has returned there (Lace’s house) to die, they are
emotionally overwhelmed and the boy runs off across the yard, his younger sister following.
George goes to them, and comforts them. He is holding an apple and says:
“No matter what, an apple will rot and decay if thrown on the ground, but if they were to take a bite out of it, the apple would become a part of them, and they would carry it with them forever.”
End of scene.
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Story 3:
Mr Kaushal comes to Mr Kumar’s house: [today]
Mr Kumar requests Mr Kaushal to sit on sofa. Both sit on sofa and are chatting.
Mr Kumar asks Mr Kaushal if he would like tea or coffee.
End of story.
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An attempt to connect dots (through fictional stories) of social behavior & mental evolution in human.
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The summary:
There are many character traits that we human might have got as a result evolutionary process, there are many more we are yet to learn and since we need to learn many such traits we are still in the process of evolution; we are not yet human but just better monkeys.
.
* Through 3 fictional stories, here I have put evolution of one of the many character traits – Sharing!
**Sharing here is a subset of all character traits that we human have; all character traits of human are a subset of human social behavior and mental evolution; and human social behavior and mental evolution is further a subset of overall human evolution process.
*** You see here I have spoken about a very microscopic part of evolution through 3 fictional stories. There is possibility of millions of such parts that we are still not aware of; we need to discover them and practice them and evolve ourselves even more – become even better monkey.
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The take away from this post :
When we experience such a trait we need to learn it and give chance to others to learn the trait and that way we’d become even better monkeys.
.
E.g. long back my friend (Vikram, listening to him talk is like swimming in gyan ganga, literally!!) saw one of the Japanese clients showing his ID card to security guard by putting his guest ID card in his hand as if he is going to offer something to God.
It seemed very peculiar to my friend. Later my friend asked the Japanese client why he showed his ID card like that. To that he replied, “Holding my ID card does 2 things –
1. I am giving respect to me.
2. it’s convenient for security guard to see it properly and makes his job easier and in turn it sends
a message to the security guard that I respect his job, his identity and above all I respect him as person.
Ok, now how am I giving respect to me? The guest ID card that I have got is not just a piece of paper and plastic; it’s my identity; it’s me. How can I not respect myself? I do that by holding my ID card as if it’s something as precious as me.”
(This was ‘discovery’ part for my friend).
.
This was something extra ordinary for my friend. So he learnt it from the Japanese client and he started practicing it (This was ‘taking a bite’ part for my friend).
Many of his friends including me saw him doing that and many of them asked him why he does that and he explained them the same (This was ‘not letting the apple get rotten’ part).
Later I observed a good many of our friends have started practicing the same (I saw ‘better monkeys’; they were more evolved monkeys).
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Monkey & Apple: [Three hundred thousands years ago something like this would have happened.]
A monkey was standing on a branch of a tree looking at an apple fruit. The fruit looks beautiful, so much beautiful that he has never seen an apple like this one!
To reach there and get the apple fruit he has to take the longest jump of his life. He is thinking how tasty it would be. How proud he’d be to have it.
He takes the jump of his life and gets the apple. Every other monkey is looking at him wondering how delicious the apple would be for he put his life on stake for it.
He is holding the apple in his hand and looking at it. Something happens; something comes in his mind and he simply gives the apple to another monkey.
This is something extra-ordinary; it never has happened in history of monkeys that a monkey
has given his hard earned fruit to another monkey.
End of Monkey and Apple story.
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Story 2:
Phenomenon: [Movie]
The children (Al & Glory) realize that George has returned there (Lace’s house) to die, they are
emotionally overwhelmed and the boy runs off across the yard, his younger sister following.
George goes to them, and comforts them. He is holding an apple and says:
“No matter what, an apple will rot and decay if thrown on the ground, but if they were to take a bite out of it, the apple would become a part of them, and they would carry it with them forever.”
End of scene.
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Story 3:
Mr Kaushal comes to Mr Kumar’s house: [today]
Mr Kumar requests Mr Kaushal to sit on sofa. Both sit on sofa and are chatting.
Mr Kumar asks Mr Kaushal if he would like tea or coffee.
End of story.
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- Were monkeys really our ancestors?
- Does it matter if they really were?
- What did the other monkey do when he got the apple?
- Did the other monkey took a bite out of it?
- Why does Mr Kumar ask whether Mr Kaushal would like tea or coffee?
- Did Mr Kaushal household not have tea or coffee?
- Did Mr Kumar not let the apple get rotten?
- Is Mr Kumar a Better Monkey?
- Are we all not just better monkeys?
- Don’t we still need many things to learn?
An attempt to connect dots (through fictional stories) of social behavior & mental evolution in human.
************************************************************************
The summary:
There are many character traits that we human might have got as a result evolutionary process, there are many more we are yet to learn and since we need to learn many such traits we are still in the process of evolution; we are not yet human but just better monkeys.
.
* Through 3 fictional stories, here I have put evolution of one of the many character traits – Sharing!
**Sharing here is a subset of all character traits that we human have; all character traits of human are a subset of human social behavior and mental evolution; and human social behavior and mental evolution is further a subset of overall human evolution process.
*** You see here I have spoken about a very microscopic part of evolution through 3 fictional stories. There is possibility of millions of such parts that we are still not aware of; we need to discover them and practice them and evolve ourselves even more – become even better monkey.
.
The take away from this post :
When we experience such a trait we need to learn it and give chance to others to learn the trait and that way we’d become even better monkeys.
.
E.g. long back my friend (Vikram, listening to him talk is like swimming in gyan ganga, literally!!) saw one of the Japanese clients showing his ID card to security guard by putting his guest ID card in his hand as if he is going to offer something to God.
It seemed very peculiar to my friend. Later my friend asked the Japanese client why he showed his ID card like that. To that he replied, “Holding my ID card does 2 things –
1. I am giving respect to me.
2. it’s convenient for security guard to see it properly and makes his job easier and in turn it sends
a message to the security guard that I respect his job, his identity and above all I respect him as person.
Ok, now how am I giving respect to me? The guest ID card that I have got is not just a piece of paper and plastic; it’s my identity; it’s me. How can I not respect myself? I do that by holding my ID card as if it’s something as precious as me.”
(This was ‘discovery’ part for my friend).
.
This was something extra ordinary for my friend. So he learnt it from the Japanese client and he started practicing it (This was ‘taking a bite’ part for my friend).
Many of his friends including me saw him doing that and many of them asked him why he does that and he explained them the same (This was ‘not letting the apple get rotten’ part).
Later I observed a good many of our friends have started practicing the same (I saw ‘better monkeys’; they were more evolved monkeys).
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