"You can only rise (transcend) so high before you have to realize that you, yourself, are also human."
I always hear friends talking about becoming vegetarian and vegan, or people trying their best to not be wasteful. I'm all for these things, becoming more eco-friendly and not consuming as much of the earth's resources as others, but there are those people who become so obsessed and extreme with their conservation that they may think that they are on the brink of becoming a human that doesn't do any damage to the earth whatsoever. (Of course, this could be totally off track, but it is a potential future for me that I have thought out, so I can judge it as much as I want.) As much as we try to conserve energy and choose healthy alternatives to dead cow, we are all human. That said, we all consume a lot of material and we all exert various pressures on sad mother Earth. This is a part of human life, and no matter how much you try to tone it down, we're still people who need water and food to survive. I'm never going to be able to reach maximum conservationist swag, because I suck away oxygen every day and I flush poop into sewers and I drink water frequently.
This epiphany can also obviously be applied to anything; anyone who has a big head or thinks himself invincible at anytime has got to remind himself that he's a person just like the rest of us.
