I'm a fan of animal documentaries and that's because watching the lives of animals is how you get to understand some of the harshest realities of life.
Sometimes you see an antelope outrun a hyena and think, "Thank God, that was a close call," but then you see the hyena return to 4 or 5 hungry cubs, disappointed that their mother returned home for the third day without dinner.
Every happy story has a sad story to accompany it. Most of the time, we believe that the sky is too big for everyone to fly. While this is true, there are those who arrived first and made sure to reserve more than enough of the "skies" for themselves.
While they believe this is good fortune for them, they have actually deprived another person of their own portion of "sky," implying that life works in such a way that people will continue to live in scarcity because another person has taken their own portion of "abundance."
The concept of inequality
Sometimes someone must be weak in order for one person to demonstrate their own strength; other times, it may not be the fault of the first person, but rather the truth behind their reality.
Sometimes someone has to be weak in order for one person to demonstrate their own strength; other times, it may not be the first person's fault, but rather the truth about their reality.
Acceptance & alignment
However, life shapes us into various designs, races, backgrounds, and identities.
Some people cannot believe how extremely fortunate they are, while others will continue to lament their fate and why they deserve such a fate. We tend to think that life is unfair by default, but this is not the case.
Most of a person's bad luck or good luck is predetermined by someone else, which is why people spend their lives enjoying or suffering the fate bestowed upon them by another person: building their lives around this comfort or struggle and forming an identity based on it.
Heritage & Inheritance
For example, drug lords' children are expected to carry on their family's business tradition. So, even if the children do not want these, they may grow up to be ruthless because that is all they have ever known.
Some people are designed to be fighters, while others are designed to be something else, and most of the time, we become what we are designed to be, rather than what we might want to be; it is a fate that has been bought for us, but we go ahead and normalize it, making it a reality that we might have chosen for ourselves.
Cruelty exists in life for a variety of reasons, and most of the time, these occurrences are the result of our own actions.
It's either you learn fast or you die quick..
in order not to let your reality determine your fate, we eventually have to adapt.. although adaptation is a struggle. Fighting every day for the most basic necessities of life can be cruel, but it is either that or we give up and are completely erased from the Earth's surface.
Some of the knowledge we seek is survival related. Some people are artists who must work as salespeople in order to pay their rent. Perhaps they were orphaned at a young age and never had a place to live or a future to build.
That reality may be sad, but it means they must learn survival skills at a young age, as well as learn to do things they should not be doing because they will be playing catch-up for the rest of their lives.
Reality is harsh, and in order to reduce its impact, you must create something adaptable in the midst of it. However, harshness is not all there is to always think about.
Adaptability strengthens resolve, which is not necessarily a bad thing.
......However, learning is not always comfortable, especially when you are not learning to scale or improve, but rather to catch up.
Some animals in the animal kingdom must learn how to feed and drink while avoiding predators who want to eat them. Consider that your species is a prey item for other animals, and you were born with a broken foot. Obviously, the chances of survival for such an animal are slim, but will this broken foot animal rolls over and allows itself to be eaten without fighting?
Exactly. Whether the life or breath in the lungs of every living thing is a gift, and while it is easy to become exhausted from constantly fighting for what others may have freely, there are situations in which people will demonstrate incredible survival skills against all odds.
It's not everyone who will need to learn or have to fight. Some people do not need to compete, while others must, and this is how most people learn. Not because it is a luxury, but because it is necessary for survival. Surviving successfully is a difficult task because many others are also attempting to survive, which is why the battle at the bottom and top is always fierce.
Unfortunately, not every attempt to learn to survive will be successful, but this does not mean that the learning process has become ineffective. Learning will always take us farther than we could have gone on our own, which is preferable to doing nothing.
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