The Desire to Survive
Posted on Sunday, 16 October 2016
The Desire
to Survive
By Apolinario Villalobos
All creatures have the innate instinct to
survive, either in their sedentary state that do not involve others or in their
struggle against their prey. In an urban setting, the ultimate struggle to
survive is what scavengers do – live on what can be salvaged from the dump. The
indolent on the other hand, live life the easiest way by resorting to evil acts
as means to exploit others.
Some plants practically take root even in
minute crevices of concrete walls and rock faces of cliffs. Still other plants
excrete substance that coat their stem and leaves that some insects living
around them use as food, thereby, providing their benefactor protection against
their prey.
The classic manifestations of man’s struggle
to survive are the wars; among the animals, are their deadly encounters with
their kind; and for the plants, the effort to reach up higher skyward than
others for the best exposure to the sun.
Without the desire for survival, the
purpose of life is lost.
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