Human Spirit?

A friend was telling me how great he thinks the human spirit is in reference to
the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti.

It's amazing how amazed people are when they see how people, after suffering
horrific trauma, eventually feel reborn - empowered - with the help of millions
of their own species supporting and nourishing them emotionally, physically,
and psychologically.

Omnipresent Beauty is a force of nature, and must naturally surface from the
depths of despair on the backs of those humans forced to dive deep enough to
find it, whether or not human aid is available to them.

Human animals are the only species who, in time, discover this pervading source
of enrichment because humans are the only species who somewhere along life's
timeline, were dumb enough to lose our connection to it in favor of our highly
self-esteemed egos.

All one need do is take our self-centered eyes off our own species for a moment
to praise, instead, for example, the baby elephant orphan who naturally accesses
within himself the strength to persevere through the aftershock of witnessing his
mom and whole family brutally slashed and slaughtered right before his eyes; right
before he is snatched up from his magnificent wild home, snuffed into a steel cage,
isolated in the deafening noise of a rumbling jet plane for endless hours,
and finally crammed into a zoo or circus prison - forever cutoff from any hope
of recovering his natural life...rendered on the sacrificial alter of the 'human spirit'
balking at him for the rest of his dwarfed existence.

Keep pumping ourselves up about how great we humans are, but the fact is,
we lost heart as a species eons ago the moment we scrunched our animal spirit
inside the heinous human treatment of our Mother Earth and Her entire glorious
family.