Are you competent as a human being? Are you good at life, as a human? I'm asking, because I can't help thinking we are far from it, individually and collectively. Then, I might be wrong.
I came to this question as a realization, following a particular train of thought. It started while contemplating reincarnation. To me, having human knowledge, life energy and sensibility, seemingly floating around after death, as a source one can tap into, is quite attractive.
Considering the principle of mass conservation, where nothing is created nor destroyed - only transformed, I'm asking how this could not apply to human experience. Moreover, we come into this world, or probably any other, already equipped with whatever we can bring in. Many have observed different babies are being born with a distinct personality, which can soon develop into a singular life path, or not.
If one agrees with the possibility of reincarnation being a thing, that once one has come to material life as a living entity, one might come back as another self after a previous corporal envelope has expired, well, that leads to many buggling, fascinating questions.
Let's compare one lifetime on Earth, in the material world, as one big rollercoaster ride. How many ride did I had previous to this one? How many did you have? How many people actually on Earth are fairly inexperienced humans? Well, some say that from the dawn of our early bipedal primate ancestors, some one hundred billion human like individuals have roamed the Earth, through thousands of generations.
So, we might say that eight percent of all that are and were like us are actually alive on Earth as you read this. I also know that fifty years ago, Earth population was less than half what it is now. Considering we passed one billion individuals not so long ago, about four to five generations prior, we can postulate most humans actually on Earth are fairly new and inexperienced human beings, while a minority of humans are presumably absolutely over experienced in comparison. Well, that would explain a lot.
Which brings another question. If some of us know things others don't, shouldn't they do something about it? Like teach things? Well, it is being done already, in many different ways. And it doesn't really work. Because nothing buys experience, and human individuals crave experience, until they know, innately, through the process of many rides.
Another question would be from where do all those newish human souls come from prior to the human ride experience. Where they animals? That would explain the strong herd instinct of many. In any case, it all brings a lot of questions. To be continued.