• Humanity.
    What is it really?
    Is it a mother's touch? A peer's encouraging words?
    Is it kindness? Is it mercy?
    Is it simply life itself?
    Is it something we can really define at all?

    Some would say that humanity is dark
    That it is cruel and unforgiving
    That it is twisted and selfish
    After all, is it not humanity that built the darkest of the dungeons in the medieval era?
    Is it not humanity that still rapes, steals, and murders to this day?
    Some would say that humanity is all that has gone wrong in the world
    But can we really define it as such?

    Others, however, would say that humanity is somewhere in the middle
    That it is not benevolent and compassionate,
    But neither is it cold and heartless
    Humanity is like a pendulum; it swings to both extremes, but it also always rests in the middle
    Humanity creates civilizations and it destroys it
    Humanity makes life and it kills it
    And it always exists between life and death

    Truly, humanity is what each and every person makes of it
    There are those who act solely for their own gain
    And there are those who selflessly sacrifice themselves for others

    What will you do with your humanity?