Dont get me wrong, I love life, and I dont welcome death I just dont think death is that bad. But thats because I believe their is more for us spiritually after we die.... A non spiritual way to look at it- A dead person may smell bad, but they will soon be decomposed by insects, those insects may be eaten by a bad ass bird. Whatever is left will become one with the soil, and provide nutrients that will grow a beautiful tree. In a way, that dead smelly person is also a beautiful tree, and a bad ass bird.
Brother I am sorry you feel that way. Survival is not absolute. You will have to learn to let go one day, that is the truth. *if I recall, Alexander left many contributions over his journeys...many symbols in vast cultures show where he conquered, therefore showing the "underdog" or the loser of those battles. In short, they lived on even in death by the victors markings in those territories...for example the great lion head in many eastern architectural design is a symbol of his conquers (Alexander the Great). Khan Besides survival in terms of "life" only makes references to organism that can produce the most fit off-spring. Not your ability to kill, conquer. Try living from the heart and see if life brings on new meaning.
I don't want to think of myself as birdshit dude. Survival is all that matters. If you live...there's always the chance you can get revenge on whatever tried to kill you.
"Ignorance is poverty of the mind"~my 8th grade history teacherSent from my XT1080 using Grasscity Forum mobile app
"Every miracle begins with a problem." Not sure who said it originally but I heard it years ago and I try to tell myself it when shit goes wrong.
“It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.†― John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
One time I was with my friend at one of his family barbecue party things and I was talking to his grandpa for a long time and he told me this: "Don't believe anything you hear and only believe half of what you see". That one got to me and has stuck since I was 13.
"Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long." -Seneca (some brilliant man that lived 2,000 years ago)
"Society's like a stew, if you dont stir it up every once in a while, a layer of scum floats to the top" Sent from my iPhone using G
"It is not those who can inflict the most, but those that can suffer the most who will conquer." - Terence MacSwiney
"We still hadn't learned, though, that growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something. Each time, you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize that there are more flavors of pain than coffee. There's the little empty pain of leaving something behind - graduating, taking the next step forward, walking out of something familiar and safe into the unknown. There's the big, whirling pain of life upending all of your plans and expectations. There's the sharp little pains of failure, and the more obscure aches of successes that didn't give you what you thought they would. There are the vicious, stabbing pains of hopes being torn up. The sweet little pains of finding others, giving them your love, and taking joy in their life they grow and learn. There's the steady pain of empathy that you shrug off so you can stand beside a wounded friend and help them bear their burdens. And if you're very, very lucky, there are a very few blazing hot little pains you feel when you realized that you are standing in a moment of utter perfection, an instant of triumph, or happiness, or mirth which at the same time cannot possibly last - and yet will remain with you for life. Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it. Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it's a big part, and sometimes it isn't, but either way, it's a part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.†― Jim Butcher