What is rare in a person?

What is rare on earth...?

It seems we live in abundance more now than ever. Since new millennia, everything has reached everyone super-fast, thanks to modern economic machines. In this social and cultural revolution still, I can see some rare things on earth. Some are materialistic, like gold and emeralds. Still not found in abundance, so we cannot use it to build our plates with. But what I am more interested in are non-materialistic, rather conceptual things.

Following is a full list of rare things that I find fascinating and are rare in an individual.

Creativity is rare.

Creativity is abundant in a child. Yet when we become adults, as the learned behavior becomes dominant, and we stick with our corporate roles, Creativity becomes a rarity. Either time constrains, or mental constraints put an end to our childhood dreams. And we do not tend to appreciate an adult for taking a creative pursuit as much as we encourage a child. Which is equivalent to a first-degree murder, if we speak in terms of a crime.

The yellow flowered green grass standing tall challenging a mountain.

Hypothesizing is rare.

At the peak of any domain of knowledge or craft, there should be some form of hypothesis. As everything will never be discovered, hypothesizing is the only way we can deal with unknown. We can say, humans are far better than humans of the past in this enduring task of hypothesizing. It is true that we are doing more and more research than ever. Yet, I can see only a minute fraction of humans are actively involved in hypothesizing as a routine. You may hypothesize about weather, or a stock price, or iran war. And that's only as far as an ordinary man goes.

Mindfulness is rare.

Mindfulness is not a meditation practice, to calm yourself down when you're frantic and stressed. It is the life. Every moment we are not aware of our immediate surroundings and our internal reactions to the environment, we are just drifting in a dream. Life is what happens while we make other plans. Nobody is living unless the one who is mindful.

Silence is rare.

I see noise everywhere. Drums, guitars, organs, aero planes, heavy machinery rolling in each city block just bring too much noise. Even when I try to keep silent it almost always fails as the world is too much noisy. How unfortunate we have lost the pleasures of silence in search of better music. Sometimes even in rare isolation, the echo of those noisy cities ruminates in mind, the deserved peace cannot be achieved even inside a forest. It might take days of social isolation for someone to reach silence nowadays. So, silence is rare.

Generosity is rare.

Selfishness is abundant. Generosity is rare. I find this a fascinating quality of mind. Like a pureness inside pureness in a crystal-like nature of a white Lillie. But even within myself and others I see this rare. I have seen some and even acts of Generosity daily. But the selfless Generosity is a different level. Such that it doesn't depend on the consequence of the action. It is standalone. And it is kind of platonic. Its presence can even be deluded, but if one does not wish for a heaven, this would be the second-best place to be, if it's a place to dwell. Philanthropy is just fake when compared to generosity.

There are some other candidates in the rare list. But there is no point focusing on too many at a time so. Let's just list them out.

Love. Consistency. Resilience. Empathy. Selflessness.