Yes, you read it right! You are not a machine. You are not a non- living thing. You are a divine human being created in the image of God. You need to remember that!
The problem we are facing right now is that, any action we are engaging in we are not giving our best. In other words we are lacking some kind of self-awareness! For example, when we are stressed out, we go for binge eating or watch Netflix for countless hours and when we are done with binge eating and watching, somewhere in the heart we feel guilt. We regret ourselves for eating too much or watching too much tv.. At the time of eating, we hardly had any self awareness about our action (eating) once, we were done with eating, we suddenly realized about the consequences of having eaten too much of food. It’s like machine, when you switch on it works and when you switch off and then it doesn’t.
One thing we really need to do is whatever actions we engage in, we genuinely need to become self aware of that particular action. It is not like you are blindly doing something. It is about your eyes are opened. It is the idea of knowing what you are working on.
Machines are assigned with tasks. We need to remind ourselves that, we are the inventor of machines. We are above machines. A criminal’s brain works like a machine. During the process of killing someone he doesn’t think about his actions. He is not self aware. He just blindly completes his task. Once, he spends some time in the jail, he really thinks why did he do it? What did he get after doing it. He then starts thinking about his family. He suddenly becomes self aware after engaging in terrible action. We can learn so much from this small example. Anything you do or any action you engage in please just don’t it blindly like a machine. Do it with some awareness!