Many that I have met during my brief time in this world have offered the thought that one should “never forget where they came from” and for some time I battled with the precise implications of such a concept. From what place have I come and how am I to remind myself of it? A scientist may state that I was created by means of a predictable collection of chemical reactions and bonds followed by natural, ineluctable processes. Accordingly, ingoing with the previously mentioned principle, I should never disregard certain aspects of science and it’s methodology. A ‘patriot’ may inform me that I derive from the long history of changes and adaptations performed by a culture or society. Therefore it would be in my best interests to attempt to memorise all that I can of the culture and society I live or once lived amongst. A theist could remark that I am a result of ‘God’ and that which he/she/it has constructed. Thus I must come to understand this deity in as many of its complexities as I can comprehend.
We as a species debate our origins, we praise our origins, we ravage one another due to disagreements regarding our origins, our origins are evidently of great significance to us. This consequently draws me to believe that the regulatory manners in which we remind ourselves of such origins (or “where we came from”) speaks great lengths about both us as a species and us as individuals. So please my friends, share with me and this community what routine actions, if any, you commit yourselves to which remind you of “where you came from”.

Topics: psychology, philosophy, sociology, theology, humanity, cosmology, abiogenesis