Day 709

Somewhere along the line of our gradual change, our evolution, our progression to a better kind of creature, something went wrong. Sure we don't all believe we were anything but what we are now and we've always been this, never anything besides but that doesn't mean we aren't still changing.

We've lost our thick fur, our sloped down posture and even, at some point, the ability to fully rotate our ears(at least our remaining vestigial muscles suggest this).

With all this loss, all this shifting and elongating and shutting down of parts somehow found unnecessary, what have we gained?

Aside from the obvious language and technology arguments, those were bound to happen sooner or later anyway. We're becoming physically stronger, our bodies are exposed to more calcium and nutrition than ever before,accelerating the changes faster than we can fully comprehend but subtle enough that we won't always notice.

It starts in the odd individual born different in one way or another. Less toes, bigger lungs, more heart valves, an extra stomach - all things we might not be aware of at a passing glance but normal enough that they stand a high chance of passing their changes on. More and more people not quite resembling the people we see in our textbooks but never enough to warrant any global news report.

And so they carry on as if they were exactly the same as everyone else, with their superior low light vision and retractable secondary set of teeth. Who'd notice these things unless there was a medical intervention which accidentally highlighted it?

It's been going on for long enough that whole sections of our governments aren't what we'd classically call human, not physically at least. Their minds have changed little, one constant in the midst of all this biological chaos as nature sporadically tests out what will and won't survive. To protect themselves against nature, against those of us who aren't as changed as them, they make getting medical aid harder,make living harder. Weeding out the weak faster than nature could ever hope to while we pay them to do it.

If nobody can see a doctor, how will they know they're any different to anyone else?
How do you know you're not any different to anyone else?
Or are you one of the changed waiting for us to pass?