Humans.

I'm amazed by how capable and intelligent the human body is.
But sadly, we, the modern average human, doesn't seem to appreciate it.

I want to ask you, anyone who is reading, what are living for?
What do you aim in your life? What do you want to be in your life?
What do you want to do with your life? What do you want to spend your life on?

Obviously the modern average human beings would want to spend their precious life on playing the latest badass computer games, watching TV on your ever-so-comfortable sofa, eat tasty food filled with trans-fat, going out watching movies and shopping with their friends, wanting to having fun and slacking the whole day off, and the rest of the time sleeping. Of course they will go to school if they would have to, and of course slack most of the time too. All this until they graduate from school, they'll find a job, and work.

Is this life?

Yes, yes, ordinary human beings would think this is what we do, what else could we spend life on? How about this, picture our ancestors who live millions of years ago doing stuffs that we do now. Looks retarded, don't they? Because at that time, where they ain't any sophisticated technologies like the TV, the XBOX 360, computer, PSP, handphones, Nintendo Wii, neither are there shopping malls, cinema, KFC, Macdonalds, and even the most essential stuffs which makes our life easier like transport, houses, air-conditioners, cameras, beds, sofas, coffee-shops, nearby mini-marts, electricity, water, light.

Then our nowadays human beings will then comeback, saying, since we now got advanced technologies and better standards of living, why make our life so difficult and live like our ancestors? Why couldn't we just live life fun, no suffering, no hardships, and use our modern technologies?

Stupid way of thinking.

Ok, fine then, live your own way. Be weak, rot and slack at home, playing your computer games, watch your favourite TV series weekly, eat your comforting junk foods and potato chips, have fun with your friends of the same kind, playing PSP, and stay weak and fat, and sleep. Be something what a human animal shouldn't be.

Be all slacky and lazy, but when it comes to NS, you complain so much that it is so tiring, so full of hardwork, so tough, that is after spending about 18 years of your life rotting. Then you realize that how weak you are, how stupid of you being so naive, no suffering, no hardships. Well, we are all humans aren't we. It is until NS which is where at least some men get stronger, endurant, powerful, more fitter then before, noticing the benefits and reasons of being strong instead of being some slacky human playing DOTA, and bragging how good he is in it.

Pretty sad actually.

Out of those average human beings, there are other special breeds. The one that are often laughed at by the "higher class" of teenagers, who are the ones we classify as nerds. The one who doesn't know what life suppose to be either. This time, they spend their life not by socializing, but instead, studying, being weak, always being near their mother, studying, eating, sleeping and studying. Why study so much? Of course, we need our basic levels of knowledge, but way beyond that for? Getting a better job? Go study in an overseas university? Whatever for? Just a normal satisfactory job would do, I don't see the need for such a high-class jobs.

The little things that make life so complicated. One would argue why live life so complicated? If we always would make our life very simple, doing what everyone else are doing, being weak and slacky and stuffs, wanting to have fun, go ahead, but hey, we only live once, we don't we live life to the fullest? Yes, we have goals, aims, wishes, ambitions. We want to learn stuffs, to be good at stuffs, be better in some sports, do something as a hobby. The addition to the life of those human beings.

The world is really screwed.

So those hobbies of those humanoids are those things that makes them at least considerably fitter. Soccer, basketball, badminton, the common ones. And they think they are very fit. Good for those who are indeed very fit, but yeah, they are a small amount. Well why? They always hope and wish to run faster, to run longer, to get better in soccer, to kick further, to pass better, to get better in everything, blah blah. Well what is the use hoping and wishing while you aren't putting any effort which is needed in order to achieve your goals? Only those determined and passionate enough would do so.

In this world, with billions of people living, only a tiny portion of be able to live in the conditions of our origins. The rest wouldn't even last like them for even two days. Think of living in a wilderness, without any of our modern technologies, like how our ancestors did. This means there is no computer games, no TV, no means of communication except talking, no comfortable bed, no electricity, no KFC, etc. To our ancestors in the prehistoric times, they say that in order to survive, you must be strong, but it doesn't really fit right now, well too bad the world changed, to the better?

Now people are so blessed but they don't even seem to realize it. If an ancestor would to live the life of ours now, they would be suprised. They don't have the convenience of a food court like we do now, and they don't have fun like we do now. Our ancestors would laugh at how weak we are and how stupid we are. Pick an average Joe in the streets now and ask them whether could they do a muscle up. Again, only a tiny portion of the popularity could do at least one. Our ancestors would do 5 of them easy, and give them a tree and they will climb it easy.

We don't know what a human animal should be. Our ancestors again, portrayed what it should be; strong, powerful, endurant, agile, quick, cunning, alert, etc. Our ancestors easily outpower us in terms of strength and everything else, like how to survive. All we know now is to playing computer games and "own" others, how to complain and argue, fight and hate, create conflicts and insult others, make fun of others, eat junks, watch TV, magazines, man-made buildings, be egotistic, slack and have fun, the other few things that we are better as compared to our ancestors. Very stupid aren't we?

We have the modern technologies to blame to right? The inventions of face surgery to make one look better, the inventions of steriods and drugs to make one perform better, the creations of mini-mart and food courts for our own convenience, the inventions of computers and consoles to play, the inventions of handphones, TV, radio, shopping malls, houses for our own benefits. All these machines leading to the life we are having now. The advantages of science and technology. Yeah, we are living some life way fortunate then our ancestors, but still, lots of people complain.

Life is not meant to be wasted for something not beneficial, something stupid, something wasteful, something that you can forget, no. The seconds wasted for doing something stupid could be used for something more useful, i.e instead going out with your friends, you go to the fitness corner and train instead. Not saying that socializing with your friends is a bad thing, but just don't do it too often, because life is not always about having fun with your friends and socializing. Well, again human beings will say, if you got no friends, you got no life.

Whatever, if you want to make yourself be affected by other people, other human beings, go ahead, because it is your choice. But I think it is just stupid be so affected and have such a low self-esteem just because some lame people laughed at you. Why do you care about them? Why let them affect you? To make you dull, depressed, sad, when you can be filled with happiness? Why be stupid? And for the others, the one who think you are funny, insulting and mocking at others, why do you want to make life difficult for others? Can't you guys be a little more sensitive, more thoughtful of others? This is the source and creation of conflicts and hate, which leads to wars and terrorism, which is something our ancestors don't experience in their life. Why is this world so ruined?

This is why our world is ruined right now.

Don't you find it tiring, waking up after everyday's good night sleep, repeating things that you usually do? Well, yes, this is life. But we human beings are creative, although sadly we don't know that. Creativity makes things more fun, at least make things less routinal, so you won't get bored that easily, so you won't be repeating whatever you do everyday. The normal breeds or human beings don't realize this, they don't realize how capable and intelligent the human body is.

How sad this world had became. Look around you and you will probably see obese people, weak people, skinny people. Only maybe a small breed of a million of a possible billions are considerably strong, and could survive in the conditions of our ancestors. How sad. And the world are complaining how tough life is, there are suicidal thoughts, depression, when actually the standards of living had improved. Complaints, complaints, complaints. Our ancestors don't complain when they're standards of living really suck, at least when compared to us. But why now we are complaining? Our parents confiscated our handphone, they suck, our parents don't buy this coolest computer games, they suck, how sad. Really.

The world is seriously ruined.

Lets switch this into a parkour point of view.

This technological man-made inventions has made us lost our nature. Look at our modern inventions, shoes, weights (dumbbells, barbells, powerballs). Do you think our ancestors use them? Do you think our ancestors use them to be strong? Do you think our ancestors did pushups, squats, deadlifts, pistols to get stronger? Nope. They lift, they move, they climb, they crawl, they run, they throw, they swim, they survive in their "harsh" conditions everyday. They get stronger using nature, they climb trees to get coconuts, they carry things from one place to another, they travel long distances with no transport like we do today.

They have stronger bodies and joints then us, and they don't have shoes at that time. One thing good about our body is, they are smart and they know when to adapt. We get scratches, cuts, and bruises, after a while our skin harden and get stronger, as they adapt to it. Same for barefoot, at first we feel pain when we train with our bare feet, but after a while our body adapted to it, provided you train incrementally, progressively and gradually. Don't underestimate our body, they are smarter then you.

I think that we are too used in the man-made environment like in urban structures, and we should start training in the rural environment like in jungles and wilderness on trees, ropes, vines, rocks, but well sadly in Singapore we don't have such environments. It is there where it is more natural, more fresh air, the place where our ancestors live to be strong. But it is ok, since there is a lack of rural areas, training at urban environment for an escape would have more chances of happening.

Well I want to end this post saying that I'm not that good yet, I'm still not as strong as our ancestors yet, but I train to be as strong as them. I'm still a typical human being watching TV and playing my X360, and like right now I'm using the modern technology, the genuis' inventions of the computer. I'll try to spend more time training, instead of slacking and playing and having fun. I'll try to spend lesser time on the computer and TV right now. And also, I'll try my bestest to change my diet right now, try to eat healthy, stop eating the unhealthy trans-fat and eat more fruits. I'll eat more protein and lesser junk foods.

I'll listen to my body more often (will elaborate more on this in the next post), stop training when I'm sore, or when I'm tired.

Thats it.

This post might be a long one, but I hope it is a good one. It bears alot of similarity with my "Fight" post, but I found out more things to rant about again. Thanks for reading.

Well I'm sick yesterday and today, not sure why, I think I'm still weak, need to improve my immune system, and my overall body strength. Need to get back to training soon.

I really thanks Hebertiste (from Parkour.net) whose posts inspired me alot, and here's a quote from him.
Be what you are, or what you're supposed to be: a true positive individual.

Done.