MAN VS ANIMALS: FORMULA OF SUCCESS LAYS IN MAN’S INNATE TRAITS.

MAN VS ANIMALS: FORMULA OF SUCCESS LAYS IN MAN’S INNATE TRAITS.

PROF WAQAR HUSSAIN

                  Have you ever observed the difference between man and animals? If “not” then lie on an arm chair, close your eyes, start thinking, differences will automatically pour in your mind one by one, you just jot down and make a list. I did the same and made a list:

1: Hands and Intelligence:

               No other specie of animal has the blessing of hands and intelligence. Biologists say “man is super creature due to well-built mandible (lower jaw) and strong femur (thigh bone). The strength of lower jaw enabled man to keep his head erect. See heads of all mammals are pointing downward or at least in a straight line. None has an upright head. Only man is gifted with straight vertical head which enabled it brain to grow and develop. Ultimately, it builds up to a level, giving the extraordinary power of intelligence. Most animals have brain and intelligence but have no match with man.

             The strong femur enabled him to stand straight on two limbs (legs). As a result, his two front limbs (arms) became free and paved the way for development of hands and arms. Human hands are tool kit. You can use them as tweezers, pliers, screw, hammer, squeezer, etc and can take many functions: to scratch, pick, squeeze, slap, grab, point, pluck, clench, tap, rub etc. A hand can perform more than 100 different functions .So the prime difference, between man and animals, is that of hands and intelligence.

2: Communication skill:

                 Only man can talk, other animal just utter a noise with a little meaning. But man can speak and express thoughts, feeling, experiences, needs, etc. in elaborated manner. Furthermore, there are more than 2700 modes of speaking commonly referred as language. While donkey brays, dog barks, monkey chatters, apes gibbers, camel grunts, bull bellows, etc. Cry of animal is monotonous. Then, man has greater variety of uttering ranging from noisy to a melodious one. Next melodic tones have greater number of allotropy and genre; classical, pop, rock, rap, folk, jazz, blues, Latin Music, opera, inspirational, religious dedication, etc. After that each category has millions of items. Furthermore, man can pronounce the cries of all animal perfectly after a little practice.

3: Power of decision.

             Man has the quality to decide. His mind thinks compares and contrasts the options and then comes up with a viable decision. Other animal has limited decision power that too regarding hunger, sex and existence.

4: Planning:

                 Man makes plans to meet his objectives. He makes sketches, ranging from the next moment to the next century. Animal’s planning is too limited to be ignored.

5: Pleasure seeker:

              Man is the only specie who enjoys and the prime objective of his life is to acquire happiness. Animal don’t enjoy much. Mostly do not enjoy even sexual activity exempting a few like monkey, dolphin, etc.

6: Power of expression:

             Man has special power of expression. Keeping aside the speaking facility, man has many other tools to express; he can raise his shoulder, nod (up and down), blink his eyes, raise his eye brows, shake his head (right or left), point his finger, open his arms, bend to knee, prostrate, raise his arms, open his fingers, wave his hands, put hands together, put head on his shoulder, squatter, etc. All express his feelings, emotions and physical conditions. By just using his face, he can make dozens of expressions like smile, frown, sneer, pout, wince, leer, blink, gape, wink, etc. Even during sleep; his body posture, noise and frequency of breathing and style of snoring explain his internal condition and state of mind. In sum, man has wide range of expression to depict his fear, anger, anxiety, happiness, sorrow, hunger, thirst, lust, surprise, taunt, scold, etc. What a wonderful expression power, man possesses! This quality of expression gives birth to literature, painting, music, dancing, acting, mimicry, etc.

7: Meditation:

               Man is prone to meditation before the Super Being (God) in one way or other since ages. Animal don’t possess this distinction.

8: Clothing:

                Man uses clothes to cover his body. He feels shame to unveil some of his body parts, feels indignity to disclose some other portion of his body and feels dignified to cover some of them. Then, clothing protects him from the severity of weather. It has decorative value also. It depicts his feeling of sorrow or happiness. He wears different clothe according to sex, age, occasion, etc.

               Look at the variety of clothing. He wears shirt, T-shirt, jacket, sweater, coat, vest, waistcoat, etc, for upper half of body. Similarly, he covers his head, neck, hands and legs and foots with different things; made up of different materials, different style and different size, different colours, etc.

9: Collection of things:

               Man is the only specie who gathers different materials and has sense of possession. He collects money, clothe, foods, furniture, medicine; etc. He also transfers his possession to his loved ones. Animal even don’t store food, vital for their survival.

10: Change oriented:

               Man loves change. Wherever he lives or goes, he institutes changes according to his need, requirement and comfort. He not only brings changes in surrounding but also within himself. He changes his thinking, behaviour, attitude, habit, etc according to the situation. You can say: Man never changes his quality of change. Animal brings changes to very minute levels that are insignificant.

11: Housing:

              Man lives in specialized structure of residences. From Stone Age to modern Plastic age, he has been improving his abode. From caves to the Istana Nurul Iman(the largest palace of the world), he has developed his lodging. He loves to live in sophisticated, enriched and luxurious house. While, the most animals live in natural habitat. Some builds nest that too of straws and weed.

12: Three dimensional views:

           Most animal have eyes that are far apart. So they can see only two dimensions. Only man is gifted with two eyes, situated at a distance that provides three dimensional views. You can experiment by yourself. Take a book, close it and place vertically in front of your while you are seeing its binding portion and not sides. First see with one eye, you will see its binding portion or one of its sides. When you will open both eyes, you will see binding portion and both of its sides thus you are seeing its width, height and depth. This three dimensional view gives us better vision and understanding of the things.

13: Religion:

              Man is the only animal for whom God presented many religions to enrich his “man to God” and “man to man” relationship and disclosed to him the existence of life after death and the concept of accountability.

14: Civilization:

              Man is the only specie that lives in a coordinate manner. Man makes certain rules (code of ethics) based on ideology and then abide by those rules. People following certain set of rules form a group, which develops into a community and further assemble into a culture and finally mature to culminate into a civilization. As there are different ideologies, geographical conditions, generic individuality so there are different civilizations and have different characteristics. Every booming civilization will bless you with many attributes like hard work, patience, perseverance, willpower, self control, etc. that differentiate man from animals.

               Each civilization behaves like an organic body; it has birth, childhood, youth, senility and then death. According to Blaha, civilization is: “a grouping of at least several thousand people with a common culture, usually a common language, usually a geographic locale, some significant (usually monumental) buildings and architecture, and a political structure that is not necessarily unified”.

               According to Toynbee, There are 21 civilizations, 16 are dead by 1940, 4 are under severe pressure from the West. He also explained the breakdown of civilization due to failure of creative power in the creative minority and moral failure. Many civilizations like the Ancient Egyptian, the Inca, the Mayan, The Sumerian, the Babylonians, etc. have gone by. Some are blossoming and others are fading.

            Animals makes only group on the basis of species and mostly form pairs based on sex. So culture and civilization have nothing to do with animals, it is exclusively a human attribute.

15: Aim of life:

            Man is the only specie that has aim of life, both for this world and hereafter. Animal’s aim is just restricted on food, shelter, survival and sex. Man live with an aim.

Formula of success lays in making best use of man’s innate traits.

            Success is the achievement according to one’s goal. Secret of success lays in making the best use of human traits. The prime important factor of success is to set a clear aim. There is a tradition, once a lion was chasing a deer to satisfy his hunger. The deer galloped swiftly, the lion followed him. Suddenly a stream of water fall on the way, the deer jumped and flown over it but the lion got scared and stopped. The lion turned back and started walking towards his den dejectedly. A monkey was watching this drama from the top of a hill. When the lion reached near the hill, the monkey taunted lion and advised “you have gone old, now stop hunting, sit in your cave and remember God.” The old lion looked at the monkey and said, “Neither the deer is winner nor I am loser. It was the competition of two aims, I was running for my stomach and the deer was running for his life. His aim was superior to mine so he won and I lost.” So, first of all, set an elevated aim. Lowell has warned “Not failure but low aim is the crime”.

          Then God has gifted you intelligence, power of decision; bring them in use and make a planning chart. Change oriented nature and pleasure seeking traits are your driving force and then, use power of decision to choose between right and wrong, use your communicative skill and power of expression to bring people of your requirement closer to you and compose a group. Bring the Supreme Being into action by meditating according to your religion. Collect the things required to accomplish your plan, manage your clothes and abode accordingly, in a way that facilitate you task. Your hands are made to work hard in an exquisite manner and keep in mind that hard work is the key which can unlock any lock. Make the best use of your eyes to watch the progress of your team and yourself. Never allow; patience, perseverance, willpower and self control to drift away as they are the pits where most people fall.

                Sooner you will attain you goal. Success is as sure as death. If you don’t agree, go through the history of successful persons and nations. You will find these human traits soaring sky high!