Winterborn

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Like I mentioned before, we are human beings with a consciousness who, simply put, learn. We learn through teachings and through experience, using our ability of free thinking to our advantage by drawing our own individual conclusions from the things we perceive with our five senses.

From infancy to old age, we learn. It is a never-ending process, until the day we die. Throughout life we learn many a thing and slowly develop the ability to react to everyone and everything that surrounds us, and even our own bodies' physical needs, so we can continue to exist. As an infant we might not possess the same capability of thought and the formed thought processes with all their defined terms racing through our heads as we do when we grow older, but we do react to things. As an infant, I had my needs. I needed to nurture my fragile little body with my mother's milk. I lacked the ability of understanding why, the ability to even question, but - even if not consciously - I knew that I needed it. If my physical needs weren't satisfied I reacted to that condition. By crying.

I don't remember it myself, in fact, I remember as good as nothing from the time I was so little, new to the world and new to everything around me. I'm sure it's similar with you. But once I had grown up, my mother had told me about how I was back then.

By now I have grown way out of the times of infancy and childhood, I've grown to be an adult, a human being with the aforementioned ability to question, coupled with the ability to learn and many others. So have you.

And we all react to our surroundings based on our teachings and experiences. When I was younger, my mother would tell me not to touch the kettle on the stove, because it was hot. I once touched it anyway and I burned my hand something fierce, winced and cried in pain. When I see a hot kettle on a stove now, I know better than to touch it. I avoid touching it. I react to it by consciously not interacting with it, that is my choice.