"The Human Race" by Samantha Dunford
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"The Human Race" by Samantha Dunford
The following story has been selected as a featured runner-up in our 2015 short story contest (Contest Theme - "The Self-Destructiveness of Vengeance and Hate")
"The Human Race" by Samantha Dunford
I have been observing the human race for quite some time now. I have witnessed what makes them tick with frustration and have seen what makes them smile with pleasure. Over the years, I have watched humans as individuals rise and fall, fail and succeed, and have been there to watch them as a community grow and evolve. I walk past them on the streets each and every day but they never notice me, I’m just a rush of air passing by to them.
They have a limited amount of awareness, they don’t know when a flying snowball is about to hit them or notice when someone is admiring them. They are normally engaged into things that are unimportant like their thoughts or technology they carry around. Only a rare few has been aware of my presence but most of them either ignore me or mistake me of being something else, like a spirit. But for the very rare few that see me and know what I am end up being held against their will in a psychiatric ward.
It’s been a difficult task for me to test their intelligence and worth. Some humans possess great qualities that overwrite their bad ones which makes them valuable to my kind. But the majority of people that belong to this race have given in to their vengeful and hateful nature and weaken the valuable humans into becoming worthless like them.
I much prefer the company of the other creatures that share this planet with the human race. This planet they live on, called “Earth” is a remarkable place when the humans aren’t around. There are no buildings and roads covering up its naked beauty and you truly get to see the nature of Earth at its best, full with such wonder and enjoyment, such as the feel of the cool ocean on your skin and the smell of orchids in the summer. The creatures I like to be around live amongst these parts and know the importance of this moral. They all come in different shapes and sizes and are the purest sort of beasts I have ever seen in all my years of living here.
They notice me too and aren’t afraid to be around me. Which is a nice change. They like to spend time with me and observe me with a huge amount of curiosity. I find it amusing how they interact with each other and protect their family from threats. But overtime the more dominant race destroys their homes with machinery, tearing up the land from the roots, chopping down the beautiful trees and dumping their waste chemicals into their water supply. It was painful to watch innocent creatures die and their families being torn apart. And the ones that do die are left alone defenceless and either die from natural causes or being eaten by a predatory species. Its survival of the fittest in this world.
The kind of humans that kill the Earth to develop buildings on top of the land are called businessmen. They are the most ruthless and greedy kind of humans out of the whole race. They compete with each other to gain social status and don’t care who gets hurt or gets in their way. All they do is take and never give, from what I have seen they don’t have any compassion or any moral grounding whatsoever. They steal homes from families, forcing them onto the streets and cause people to lose their wealth and become poor. And this is all for green paper called money.
Money, that’s what makes humans go frantic. They love the smell, the touch and possession of this stuff. People do crazy, stupid things just to own it. Some rob banks, some smuggle drugs and some even murder. Money is the agenda behind everyone’s minds and will do absolutely anything to get it. And what do they want next after they have some of the green you wonder? Well they want more and lots of it, they keep going after it until they drew their last breath. It’s really sad. I have watched the destructive nature it does to people, tears apart families that were meant to have a bond by blood, breaks relationships that were meant to be forever, and ends friendships that were meant to last. Money brings out the self-destructiveness of human nature, gambling their savings, drinking their life away and getting up to their necks in debt. It’s not right and what’s more that humans use money as a weapon to quench their vengeance.
They manipulate and scheme against each other to get revenge on the ones that wronged them. Most commonly by causing their business to go bankrupt and lose all financial status. Some even kill their enemy in cold blood to steal their finances, but often get caught before any real action takes place. You see people going to prison, die and lose loved ones for the world’s greed of money but does anyone ever learn? Nope, they keep repeating the same mistakes as others have before them. They say “with great power comes great responsibility” but since money brings so much power over people shouldn’t the quote be “with money comes great responsibility”?
This race is quite different to any other species I have met before. They experience strong emotions that I have never felt myself, humans are driven by them and are mostly controlled. This is where the race lacks strength, people let their emotions get in the way and lose sight in what’s really important in their puny lives. It’s quite disgusting having to sit there and just observe people playing out the morals you are completely against. There are far too many occasions I have seen emotions take over but only a few stick out disturbingly more than others.
I have sadly witnessed many people often young self-destruct themselves with their own thoughts and feelings. They fiercely hate themselves for the way they look, act and speak. These thoughts often come from others critical words and opinions. When it comes to people who already have a low self-esteem adding the brutal judgments from others decreases the positives and inner strength they had left. They hold up a lot of self-hate and can only express themselves in self-vengeance by harming themselves such as cutting or attempting suicide. I have never seen so much pain in these type of humans, so much self loathe. They are the only species I have met that take their own lives. It’s sad but if they can be so easily controlled by their emotions they value no use to my kind.
Their strongest emotion I have noticed is the emotion of hate. The word is tossed around in all kinds of communication on a daily basis on Earth. It can be used in sarcasm or just playing around. Or the word can be used as an expression for other feelings. But to actually hate someone is a whole different ball game. I myself have never felt such an emotion but from my experience of monitoring humans, it’s not very pleasant. Hate controls you and makes you forget who you are as a person. It eats you up and turns your soul black, hate makes you capable of anything. Hate pulls a sheet over your conscience and common sense and can make you do terrible things.
When you hate a person to the very core of your being it goes with you every day. It’s always there reminding you of how that person has wronged you and how you would love karma to do the same thing back to them. But the more you think about it the worse it gets, like adding fuel to a fire the more you feed it negativity the stronger it will grow. As the demon inside gets bigger the more you will lose. I have seen couples break up and people losing their jobs and forgetting their hopes and dreams because they have let one emotion take over their lives.
But they really only have themselves to blame. Only a rare few can forgive and let go of the grudges they keep with them, but most people don’t have the strength to do that. When they lose everything they have worked for the hate only increases, I have met a lot of men and women who have gone to their graves with chips on their shoulders, wasted their short human lives on their own self destruction. Hate is like a disease, can be cured but will take a miracle to make it happen.
Humans are the only race that actually kills their own. Mostly out of their own spite called revenge. Some people actually act out on their hatred towards someone which is often murder. They risk serving a prison sentence just so they can serve their revenge. Hate manipulates their victims into thinking that vengeance is the cure for their hostility. That vengeance means justice and will set things straight. But their plans don’t necessarily go as smoothly as expected, most end up dead in a ditch or standing before a judge.
From the data I’ve collected from my research of this species is that no matter what generation it is, humans will always repeat the same self-destructive cycle. Humans are very fragile creatures and can be brought down very easily. It doesn’t take much to trigger their emotions that they keep locked up so tight and is easy to persuade them with just the right amount of money. They are easy prey for any other race in the universe to dominate their planet. Such as my kinds enemy.
My mission on Earth is to see if humans have strength and intelligence. To observe their weaknesses and level of vulnerability. It is up to me to decide the fate for this race, to make a decision of change or not. Whatever I report back to the council could mean the difference between life and death. In human years I have been walking the Earth for over five hundred years but the time I have actually been away from my home would be less than a week. The concept of time is different to mortals, that’s why they live very short lives.
It is without a doubt that the human race is of no use to me or my species. They don’t live very long and have so many possible ways to be killed. Their technology is very out dated and won’t be years until they have caught up to the advanced technology we have now. They lack greatly in physical strength also, any being from a different planet could easily destroy them. Humans serve no great purpose to my race at all.
As for their level of defence, they are also quite useless. The majority of humans are so self-absorbed into their own needs that when faced with an enemy they would drop like flies. Humans are driven by their emotions and are so stupid they don’t see the facts in front of them, which makes them extremely vulnerable for attack. They think they are superior but in reality humans have no worth.
They are definitely unintelligent because they destroy their planet by digging up the land to build city’s made out of concrete and brick. The majority of Earths beauty is gone and what’s left will be gone in a few more decades, I still don’t understand why they would be so stupid to destroy the planet that supplies them with everything they need to survive. Since they can’t do anything useful to help my kind and any parasite race can invade their planet, there is only one option left.
We cannot take the risk of leaving them to die out on their own destruction. There are way too many empires that will want to expand their control and multiply. Even though Earth is full of a unique beauty it isn’t worth saving. If the humans knew what was coming to them they would only have themselves to blame. If they weren’t so self-destructive by their own hate and vengeance they would be allowed to live. But the humans are like insects that crawl on mother Earths face and are just a nuisance and have too many flaws to be considered civilised.
If they would stop killing their own kind and worked together as a community they may have stood a chance to defend themselves against their unknown enemies. But that unfortunately would never happen on their own and we are too occupied to help them. It is their own fault, they let their greed and selfishness get in the way of life. I am doing them a favour. By the looks of human life it’s hard and not worth the effort. I will be putting them out of their misery.
I am back home with the council and have reported my findings. They agree that it has to be done and there is no other option. This isn’t the first time I have given the okay to destroy a planet and I’m sure it won’t be the last. I had such high hopes for Earth, but alas the humans basically signed their own death certificates before I even got there. Such a waste of another planet but it must be done, it’s our duty as the council.
The explosion of the Earth being blown to pieces would be deafening to any nearby hovercraft. I watch the layers of the Earth crumble away from the core like a cookie being dropped on the floor. It’s sad to watch yet another planet being erased but it’s for the greater good. The last phase of cleansing is to burn the remaining pieces of the planet. From my seat I watch the removalists burn the pieces into nothing. Nothing, there is all there is in the place of the planet, complete darkness. Earth is no more.
"The Human Race" by Samantha Dunford
I have been observing the human race for quite some time now. I have witnessed what makes them tick with frustration and have seen what makes them smile with pleasure. Over the years, I have watched humans as individuals rise and fall, fail and succeed, and have been there to watch them as a community grow and evolve. I walk past them on the streets each and every day but they never notice me, I’m just a rush of air passing by to them.
They have a limited amount of awareness, they don’t know when a flying snowball is about to hit them or notice when someone is admiring them. They are normally engaged into things that are unimportant like their thoughts or technology they carry around. Only a rare few has been aware of my presence but most of them either ignore me or mistake me of being something else, like a spirit. But for the very rare few that see me and know what I am end up being held against their will in a psychiatric ward.
It’s been a difficult task for me to test their intelligence and worth. Some humans possess great qualities that overwrite their bad ones which makes them valuable to my kind. But the majority of people that belong to this race have given in to their vengeful and hateful nature and weaken the valuable humans into becoming worthless like them.
I much prefer the company of the other creatures that share this planet with the human race. This planet they live on, called “Earth” is a remarkable place when the humans aren’t around. There are no buildings and roads covering up its naked beauty and you truly get to see the nature of Earth at its best, full with such wonder and enjoyment, such as the feel of the cool ocean on your skin and the smell of orchids in the summer. The creatures I like to be around live amongst these parts and know the importance of this moral. They all come in different shapes and sizes and are the purest sort of beasts I have ever seen in all my years of living here.
They notice me too and aren’t afraid to be around me. Which is a nice change. They like to spend time with me and observe me with a huge amount of curiosity. I find it amusing how they interact with each other and protect their family from threats. But overtime the more dominant race destroys their homes with machinery, tearing up the land from the roots, chopping down the beautiful trees and dumping their waste chemicals into their water supply. It was painful to watch innocent creatures die and their families being torn apart. And the ones that do die are left alone defenceless and either die from natural causes or being eaten by a predatory species. Its survival of the fittest in this world.
The kind of humans that kill the Earth to develop buildings on top of the land are called businessmen. They are the most ruthless and greedy kind of humans out of the whole race. They compete with each other to gain social status and don’t care who gets hurt or gets in their way. All they do is take and never give, from what I have seen they don’t have any compassion or any moral grounding whatsoever. They steal homes from families, forcing them onto the streets and cause people to lose their wealth and become poor. And this is all for green paper called money.
Money, that’s what makes humans go frantic. They love the smell, the touch and possession of this stuff. People do crazy, stupid things just to own it. Some rob banks, some smuggle drugs and some even murder. Money is the agenda behind everyone’s minds and will do absolutely anything to get it. And what do they want next after they have some of the green you wonder? Well they want more and lots of it, they keep going after it until they drew their last breath. It’s really sad. I have watched the destructive nature it does to people, tears apart families that were meant to have a bond by blood, breaks relationships that were meant to be forever, and ends friendships that were meant to last. Money brings out the self-destructiveness of human nature, gambling their savings, drinking their life away and getting up to their necks in debt. It’s not right and what’s more that humans use money as a weapon to quench their vengeance.
They manipulate and scheme against each other to get revenge on the ones that wronged them. Most commonly by causing their business to go bankrupt and lose all financial status. Some even kill their enemy in cold blood to steal their finances, but often get caught before any real action takes place. You see people going to prison, die and lose loved ones for the world’s greed of money but does anyone ever learn? Nope, they keep repeating the same mistakes as others have before them. They say “with great power comes great responsibility” but since money brings so much power over people shouldn’t the quote be “with money comes great responsibility”?
This race is quite different to any other species I have met before. They experience strong emotions that I have never felt myself, humans are driven by them and are mostly controlled. This is where the race lacks strength, people let their emotions get in the way and lose sight in what’s really important in their puny lives. It’s quite disgusting having to sit there and just observe people playing out the morals you are completely against. There are far too many occasions I have seen emotions take over but only a few stick out disturbingly more than others.
I have sadly witnessed many people often young self-destruct themselves with their own thoughts and feelings. They fiercely hate themselves for the way they look, act and speak. These thoughts often come from others critical words and opinions. When it comes to people who already have a low self-esteem adding the brutal judgments from others decreases the positives and inner strength they had left. They hold up a lot of self-hate and can only express themselves in self-vengeance by harming themselves such as cutting or attempting suicide. I have never seen so much pain in these type of humans, so much self loathe. They are the only species I have met that take their own lives. It’s sad but if they can be so easily controlled by their emotions they value no use to my kind.
Their strongest emotion I have noticed is the emotion of hate. The word is tossed around in all kinds of communication on a daily basis on Earth. It can be used in sarcasm or just playing around. Or the word can be used as an expression for other feelings. But to actually hate someone is a whole different ball game. I myself have never felt such an emotion but from my experience of monitoring humans, it’s not very pleasant. Hate controls you and makes you forget who you are as a person. It eats you up and turns your soul black, hate makes you capable of anything. Hate pulls a sheet over your conscience and common sense and can make you do terrible things.
When you hate a person to the very core of your being it goes with you every day. It’s always there reminding you of how that person has wronged you and how you would love karma to do the same thing back to them. But the more you think about it the worse it gets, like adding fuel to a fire the more you feed it negativity the stronger it will grow. As the demon inside gets bigger the more you will lose. I have seen couples break up and people losing their jobs and forgetting their hopes and dreams because they have let one emotion take over their lives.
But they really only have themselves to blame. Only a rare few can forgive and let go of the grudges they keep with them, but most people don’t have the strength to do that. When they lose everything they have worked for the hate only increases, I have met a lot of men and women who have gone to their graves with chips on their shoulders, wasted their short human lives on their own self destruction. Hate is like a disease, can be cured but will take a miracle to make it happen.
Humans are the only race that actually kills their own. Mostly out of their own spite called revenge. Some people actually act out on their hatred towards someone which is often murder. They risk serving a prison sentence just so they can serve their revenge. Hate manipulates their victims into thinking that vengeance is the cure for their hostility. That vengeance means justice and will set things straight. But their plans don’t necessarily go as smoothly as expected, most end up dead in a ditch or standing before a judge.
From the data I’ve collected from my research of this species is that no matter what generation it is, humans will always repeat the same self-destructive cycle. Humans are very fragile creatures and can be brought down very easily. It doesn’t take much to trigger their emotions that they keep locked up so tight and is easy to persuade them with just the right amount of money. They are easy prey for any other race in the universe to dominate their planet. Such as my kinds enemy.
My mission on Earth is to see if humans have strength and intelligence. To observe their weaknesses and level of vulnerability. It is up to me to decide the fate for this race, to make a decision of change or not. Whatever I report back to the council could mean the difference between life and death. In human years I have been walking the Earth for over five hundred years but the time I have actually been away from my home would be less than a week. The concept of time is different to mortals, that’s why they live very short lives.
It is without a doubt that the human race is of no use to me or my species. They don’t live very long and have so many possible ways to be killed. Their technology is very out dated and won’t be years until they have caught up to the advanced technology we have now. They lack greatly in physical strength also, any being from a different planet could easily destroy them. Humans serve no great purpose to my race at all.
As for their level of defence, they are also quite useless. The majority of humans are so self-absorbed into their own needs that when faced with an enemy they would drop like flies. Humans are driven by their emotions and are so stupid they don’t see the facts in front of them, which makes them extremely vulnerable for attack. They think they are superior but in reality humans have no worth.
They are definitely unintelligent because they destroy their planet by digging up the land to build city’s made out of concrete and brick. The majority of Earths beauty is gone and what’s left will be gone in a few more decades, I still don’t understand why they would be so stupid to destroy the planet that supplies them with everything they need to survive. Since they can’t do anything useful to help my kind and any parasite race can invade their planet, there is only one option left.
We cannot take the risk of leaving them to die out on their own destruction. There are way too many empires that will want to expand their control and multiply. Even though Earth is full of a unique beauty it isn’t worth saving. If the humans knew what was coming to them they would only have themselves to blame. If they weren’t so self-destructive by their own hate and vengeance they would be allowed to live. But the humans are like insects that crawl on mother Earths face and are just a nuisance and have too many flaws to be considered civilised.
If they would stop killing their own kind and worked together as a community they may have stood a chance to defend themselves against their unknown enemies. But that unfortunately would never happen on their own and we are too occupied to help them. It is their own fault, they let their greed and selfishness get in the way of life. I am doing them a favour. By the looks of human life it’s hard and not worth the effort. I will be putting them out of their misery.
I am back home with the council and have reported my findings. They agree that it has to be done and there is no other option. This isn’t the first time I have given the okay to destroy a planet and I’m sure it won’t be the last. I had such high hopes for Earth, but alas the humans basically signed their own death certificates before I even got there. Such a waste of another planet but it must be done, it’s our duty as the council.
The explosion of the Earth being blown to pieces would be deafening to any nearby hovercraft. I watch the layers of the Earth crumble away from the core like a cookie being dropped on the floor. It’s sad to watch yet another planet being erased but it’s for the greater good. The last phase of cleansing is to burn the remaining pieces of the planet. From my seat I watch the removalists burn the pieces into nothing. Nothing, there is all there is in the place of the planet, complete darkness. Earth is no more.
