I've never truly expressed this view, but it is a thought of mine, and I've never actually posted a thought on here, so why not?

The term, "I'm only human." is one often used as an excuse for not performing as adequately as one should. I must say, whenever I hear this term being used I cringe and die a little inside.
When did "human" become the lowest denominator, the par of our existence? The item of which we do not strive for merely succeed automatically and it is still not the glorious trophy?

How dare we use the word human so disgracefully that we will mock our history! Great people achieved great wonders, they were only human, but their ideas and creations have lived on far beyond them. Dante, and his philosophy theories. Michelangelo and Leonardo, their discovers about the human anatomy and their artwork that still strikes us. Gallelao, of course, a man who risked alienation to discover truth far greater than humans had ever thought was in their grasp before. Before these men as well there were signs of humans attaining to things they never thought possible before: look at the pyramids or Sphinx: aliens did not build those, humans did. Ancient Rome, statues, art, buildings, created by humans. Everything still alive today, why? Because we didn't stop with this belief that humans could simply attain only up to one set line. the term "only human" wasn't in existence because we were all that there was.

Only human? Do not insult those who have walked this earth before you.