As any other animal, man also survives to live. The animal may get its food by hunting it, while the man will buy it from the local grocery store. The animal may live out in the open, as man will continue to sleep in a cozy home. And at times, the animal may roam around in search of new habitat just so, man will move from city to city. The animal may not find it as easy to survive, but on the other hand, man might not even call this 'survival' survival at all. We have all given survival a nearly synonymous word.... "life." You might be wondering, what the hell does grocery shopping have to do with survival. The human race has totally redefined the animal meaning of survival. To survive, we need a few basic things.... food, habitat, water. To get these things, we need to buy them; exchange them for money, in other words, we need money to get these things. In order to get money, we work. We have jobs. Everyday half the world starts its day by getting up and going to work. Now, if we didn't work, we wouldn't get money, if we didn't get some dough, we wouldn't be able to get our daily bread to survive. The thing is, work is a type of survival, without it, we won't survive. It has been money which has transformed animal survival into human survival. Survival is all about just staying alive, not necessarily enjoying. That is where the meaning of life changes. To survive the animal way means to hunt, sleep where you can and drink off lake. To survive the human way means to work hard all your life to make money and get the three essentials, leaving not much room for enjoyment. And to live means to work hard, enjoy and make your days worth living. Survival itself is pretty hard, adding enjoyment to it makes even more hard. And that's what all of us try to do everyday, may we pass or fail, have fun or not, this is one thing no one will give up on so easily. Surviving is fulfilling your basic needs, living is fulfilling your wants as well as your needs.
Animal's list of things to do everyday:
- Get up.
- Survive.
- Go back to sleep.
A human's list of things to do everyday:
- Get up.
- Survive and have fun.
- Go back to sleep.
