It seems that all of our human lives can be boiled down to two basic instincts. These two instincts are so wrapped up in our beings that they are almost invisible. For us, that means they're probably mythic realities.
The first is, we all hunger. This sensation is universal, and applies to virtually every single area of life. Think of all the things we hunger for: food, companionship, security, understanding. You can name just about anything, and somebody has a hunger for it.
There's a good German word for the second, and it takes two English words to capture it. In German it's the word machen, which means to make or to do. We are creatures of intentional activities. We don't just exist. We do stuff, we make things. We reproduce, create works of art, build great structures, go places, expore, discover. We make and we do all kinds of stuff.
Why are these two behaviors so significant? Because they encompass all other behaviors. They just may be the most fundamentally God-like behaviors that we exhibit.
Understanding them may just help us get the meaning of life. Understanding them might make all the stories that we have read or that we are a part of make a little more sense.
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