Common Sense: An Autobiography

You all are responsible.

Hi Everyone! I guess there should not be any need to introduce myself because all of you must know me, however if I consider that, there should not have been any need to right this autobiography as well. So let me first introduce myself. I am common sense. I got that name because I am common among all individuals (people in old times were not very creative when it came to naming things). That also means that when I take any decision irrespective of on whose behalf I am taking that decision, it remains the same under same circumstances. Like when an elevator door opens my decision is to let individuals inside the lift get out before you get in. So as long as people using the elevator are allowing me to decide their actions everyone inside the elevator desiring to get off on that particular floor will first get out of the elevator and then people outside will enter. Doesn't it sound like utopia? That's the power I have to change your lives for good, if you allow me to. The problem is I no longer exist. I died long back. 

That's me tingling.

I am sure you want to know how I died. Well; I was driven to commit suicide by all of you. Before we get to the end, lets first explore the beginning. Like most of the celebrated success stories, I also had a very humble beginning. I was born inside the minds of animals, before humans even came into existence. Those animals used me to improve their lives. If you are familiar with the concept of social animal you should also know that it was me in their little brains who prompted them to live in groups to improve their chances of survival. I was having very interesting childhood inside these animals and by the time I became adolescent humans came into existence. Like any other confused teenager, I took some confused decisions in the beginning and got into conflict with curiosity. Sometime curiosity won over me but later we both realised the futility of these conflicts and decided to work together for the betterment of human existence. It was me in partnership with human curiosity who shaped the early years of human existence. Whenever curiosity dictated something you looked at me for the advice and most of the time you followed that advice and fortunately I never let you down. I peaked when humans started forming societies and started living together. It was no problem because they all used me for taking decisions on common matter and they agreed with each other on the decisions taken because it was me taking decisions on all of their behalf. Trust me, I used to be a big deal back then. Everyone would consult me before taking any decision and I was enjoying that.

As it happens with every good thing. I was also not to remain at the top forever. Things started changing. Some people who were smarter than others decided that it is difficult for the less smart ones to decide trivial things on their own, so they decided to make rules to help them decided. These basic rules of life were called religion and everyone was expected to lead their lives governed by these rules. When some people tried to consult me on certain matters and I suggested them something that was against the rules defined by religion, they were frowned upon by the people who got their power by becoming the so called caretakers-cum-enforcers of religion. Situation got so bad that people consulting me were even tortured and many times killed by these religious warlords holding the positions of power. 

Dramatic representation.

I saw many ups and downs from that point onward. Sometimes making the situation even worse by giving birth to even more religions and hurting myself in the process all the time. Then at some point in time another group of powerful people decided to come up with new sets of rules and started calling them law. Now I was becoming irrelevant in human world. Instead of consulting me in their day today lives they had to decide based in these set of rules sometimes in the name of religion and some time in the name of law. I did not give up at this point. I still kept fighting for my survival. I started suggesting people on how to follow those rules i.e. still consulting them on their lives however with my limited capacity. 

The last blow to my survival came when people even started defining processes to follow these policy. That is when my relevance became almost non-existent. People would not refer to these processes instead of consulting me. One day I saw a notice at the entrance of an elevator "please allow people inside the elevator to get out first before trying to enter." That was the day I decided that this is the end of me and I decided to commit suicide and leave the human kind on their own in their battle for survival. I jumped from the heads of the humans on the ground and these stupid humans by now not aware of me instead of picking me up crushed me under their feet. 

You get the idea what I am talking about.

I wish good luck to human kind in their battle for survival and I hope they come out stronger but I know very well that with me dead, this battle is already lost by the human kind and they are heading towards their inevitable doom; unless some part of me still survives in the heads of some smart human beings and they are smart enough to revive me. My only message to everyone out there is to help these humans revive me instead of frowning on them and suppressing their efforts. You survival depends on it.

Yeah. That guy. Don't suppress him.