Born Strangers: What If Humans Don't Belong on Earth?

Look around. Every creature on this planet seems perfectly crafted for its environment.


Cats land on their feet. Birds fly without needing machines. Snakes don't need legs and yet slither with ease. Elephants don’t need sunscreen. Fish are born swimming.


And then… there’s us.


Humans.


Naked, fragile, sunburn-prone humans who get rashes from grass and die without jackets, houses, or toothpaste. Our babies? Useless for the first 10 years. Our backs? Ached by age 25. Our eyes? Need glasses. Our minds? Need therapy.


We call ourselves evolved. But… do we really feel natural?


Or more like guests, faking comfort in a world that doesn’t quite feel like home?


Why are we the only species that needs to invent shelter? Why do we have to fight the very sun with creams? Why is childbirth a near-death experience for the mother, while goats just push and walk away?


Why does gravity wear us down? Why do our joints creak? Why is mental illness our epidemic?


Why do we destroy the environment we’re supposedly "meant" to live in?


Maybe the real question is—are we even meant to be here?



When we look into the past, we see oddities. Cave paintings of beings with helmets, glowing discs in the sky, and tales of “gods” descending from above.


What if those weren’t myths, but memories?


What if those weren’t gods, but visitors?


And what if they didn’t just visit… but stayed?


Modified?


Created?




The theory isn’t new. Even ancient Sumerian texts speak of beings who “made man in their image.” And despite being ancient, these civilizations had star maps and described planetary movements long before modern astronomy confirmed them.


Coincidence?


Or clues?


Our DNA is 98% similar to chimpanzees. And yet, somehow, in that tiny 2% gap… we build cities, send machines to Mars, and wonder what made us wonder.


Evolution, sure. But… did it all happen too fast?


Is it really so strange to wonder… if something nudged us along?


That maybe we weren’t the result of just natural evolution—but of intention?


That we were engineered?




And that brings us back to now.


Why do we feel lost in this world? Why are our systems broken? Why does modern life feel like a trap of routine, anxiety, and quiet desperation?


We work jobs we hate to buy things we don’t need to impress people we don’t even like. We build cities that drown the stars. We crave connection, yet scroll endlessly through curated lives, hoping for a spark that feels real.


Why does everything feel like it's been designed to distract us from… something?


Maybe we’re not malfunctioning.


Maybe we’re just misplaced.


Maybe we were never supposed to “belong” here the way we imagine.




Some species walk barefoot all their life. We need socks.


Some live off the land. We need processed food and vitamin pills.


Some run wild within hours of birth. We need schools, parenting books, and 30 years of emotional repair.


Why?


Why is it so hard for us to simply exist?


Why do we always feel like something’s missing?


And more disturbingly… what if something is?




So I’m not saying I believe we’re alien hybrids, or that Earth is a giant simulation, or a failed experiment. I’m not saying we were placed here by some advanced species and forgotten.


But I’m also not saying we weren’t.


I’m just asking…


What if?



---ThatOneGuy



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