I'm v drunk and watching videos on how, prehistorically, humans cared for the injured and disabled, and it lead to disabled individuals living full lives whilst animals with similar injuries would have perished. And it makes me wanna cry so bad because humans are so inherently good? They're inherently kind? Humans want to care for one another. Prehistoric humans cared for their disabled. If you wanna think about humans in terms of numbers, if you think about "humans need x amount of food, so they need x amount of hunters and no room for slackers" it's WRONG. It's always been wrong. Humans share. Humans care about other humans. Humans sacrifice things to make other humans more comfortable. It makes me a dumb emotional baby thinking about how it's always been human nature to care about each other. It makes me think about how random acts of kindness make people feel so warm and fuzzy. It's because they're satisfying a primal need to care about others. Because that's what humans do
I'm also watching videos about early cave paintings and art pieces made by prehistoric peoples and that ALSO makes me wanna cry because a lot of these art pieces, the motivation was simply to be remembered. Handprints on cave walls. Made by people who wanted to be remembered. And it makes me so emotional because that's another one of the most basic, human desires. To be remembered. Not necessarily by name or by image, but as someone who made something once. It's caused me so much pain and anxiety over the years, that I'll never do something good enough to be remembered by, but sometimes it's something as simple as a handprint on a cave wall. Something that simple. Something that says "hey! I was here once!" and that's all. That's all that remains and that's good enough
Idk where I read this, but apparently there are some handprints on caves which were definitely done by lil kids, but are too high up for them to reach. Eventually they realised that it was their parents, lifting them up, so they could paint high up on the walls. which is just,,,, im gonna go cry abt it
