We fall for easy and shiny trinkets and simple, comfortable thoughts. Like a child, we rush forward towards toys and lights. We do not dismiss them for the sugary confection that they are because we do not understand or value a good life. Often, we simply do not understand what those things are. And so we accept what the hive tells us, what the tribe demands.

When we grow, if we are lucky, we walk away from the tribe and find those that have done the same. They are few, but they have all removed the limits of the tribe, self-imposed or otherwise. We learn that man is not the measure of all things. But we come to learn that his ideas can be.

And if we grow to be wise we come to realize that evolution is a blind watchmaker and not an imposing dictator of our lives. We think ourselves towards freedom and with time, we can see past the trinkets and the easy offerings. We learn to walk away from ourselves, and remember who we have become.