Or is it?
My mother had ovarian cancer at the age of 26. She was sweating copiously during the nights and, eventually, she was diagnosed and had a surgery.
A month later, she had to go to a checkup and the “doctor” tried his smart-ass talk on her, upon which she responded,
“Doctor, I know exactly as much about my condition as you do. Notice that you don’t have a pass to live any longer than I will.”
A year later, when she went back for the next appointment, the nurse told her,
“Madam, ever since you left, I’ve kept thinking about you. The doctor, only a month later, died in a car accident, taking his wife and his two children with him.”
She lived for another 56 years.
It has always baffled me that people simply want to “survive.” Have they ever lived?
So, why? Here are a few ideas, only as a warm-up:
They follow their animal instincts to survive;
They are conditioned to survive;
They haven’t done any good in their lives and need some more time;
They have nothing better to do;
They are afraid of dying;
They are afraid of what might come next…
The list is endless. Your contributions are needed. Why?
Furthermore, it is a good question: why would people deserve to live?
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/why-should-humans-survive
That’s the spirit!
Please, notice that while I have written the call for comments and a conversation, in weekend conversations, I keep my presence at the bare minimum, assuming the commenters mutually show respect to each other, don't digress from the topic, don't BS, and don't use gutter talk. :)
Here now the weekend is long in the tooth, I’ve been working in the Virtu gallery the past three days, my attention was not here. This is an intriguing post Ray, I skimmed it when I first opened it Friday.
When our home burned to the ground upstate NY January 26 ‘08 -
Everyone who approached me for the next weeks/months kept saying ‘you’ll survive this’ and proceeded with carrying on with their distress over what they perceived as my distress !
My wise 10 yr old daughter tired of this overtly as I politely let them blabber on.
We came up with the term ‘thrival’. It’s an attitude of making the most of situations to learn and grow - we laughed as we discussed having the ultimate yard sale and everything sold!!
The embraced liberated feeling of not having ‘things’ and being just fine. Not to make too light of this surprise I wish on no one -
It was a lot of work pulling a home front together from scratch, but we had the advantage of hindsight to make choices in doing so.