Adaptability

It has become absolutely unbelievable to me in the last few days the adaptability of human beings. How within a few days, your ‘norm’ can be completely re-written. The first day I used the latrine behind the kitchen at the boys home, I looked over and saw the head of a rat that had been chewed off and was swarmed with flies, sitting on the ground next to where I was. There are chickens that have built nests in the piles of garbage that they also eat, and have their broods of chicks following them around. After lunch today, I came out to see the cook using the cutting knife to clean something off of her toenail. Tomorrow, I will eat lunch there again. This is how human beings live like this. Necessity, of course, and our incredible adaptability, where we know nothing else, so that what we know is the norm. Although this adaptability is one of our greatest survival skills, it also makes me sad to see how this quality can cause us to so easily adjust to living in horrible conditions (and see others living in it) with little or no thought.