Survival is Insufficient?
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Re: Survival is Insufficient?
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-- 10 Jun 2017, 02:18 --
Living and surviving are two very different things. One must not confuse one with the other. Surviving means merely existing whereas living is having hopes and dreams, enjoying life.
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I agree. In my opinion, one has to choose to live. There must be a purpose or a reason for staying alive. Perhaps you aren't really alive if you are simply existing.Leese wrote:I'd go with Survival is Insufficient, simply because I don't think there's much to just simply existing for the sake of existing. I think there definitely has to be purpose to said survival in order for it to be worthwhile.
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I added my vote to the third optionrssllue wrote:I don't think that you ever gave us your own thoughts on the subject @Gravy What do you think?
I guess I'm weird. I always thought surviving would be even more important during/after an apocalypse.khusnick wrote:There isn't a point to survival when you aren't really living. The Walking Dead viewpoint has always seemed crazy to me. Why keep going? You're losing people you love and care about. You're constantly on edge. There's no purpose to your day-to-day life aside from making sure you don't die. That's no way to live. Survival is an instinct at that point, and it's a useless one at that.
What is grief, if not love persevering?
Grief is just love with no place to go.
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I completely agree. Something to live for is a must. Life without purpose is horrible. I've seen it close up in others I care about. Might as well die and move on to the next realm or life.katiesquilts wrote:In my opinion, simple surviving isn't that hard to do. As long as you had food and water, you could lay on your back 24/7 and still survive. But no one wants a life like that. Even people with depression who find it hard to do much more than lay down for hours at a time still don't like it. Human beings need more than survival -- they need exercise, meaningful relationships, a cause or goal to devote themselves to, and more than anything, a reward for surviving. If, at the end of the day, all you can say is, "Great, I didn't die today!" then something is probably wrong...
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In the 1940s, a psychologist named Abraham Maslow described a hiearchy of needs. He put survival needs like food and safety at the bottom, and he put emotional and psychological needs higher up. Such needs included friends, family, and significant others.