Ever since we are born, we start learning the art of survival. A baby learns it needs food in order to survive, and does all it can to get it. You will hear a lot of new parents complaining about how their baby cries when hungry. It is nothing but the baby’s need for survival. The biggest tool available to the baby at the time is a voice, and thats it exercises to achieve the eventual goal for survival.

The human body is a simple machine. It knows what it needs to survive. Its part of the human DNA to survive, and as we grow older and (hopefully) smarter, we find better ways to survive. The cave man learned to hunt, as his means for survival. He then discovered fire, as a means of scaring away wild animals and consequently not get eaten by them.

The human mind, arguably the most sophisticated part of the body also tends to evolve. It finds more efficient ways to survive with every generation. The cave man’s descendants had swords and spears, and the descendants of his descendants eventually built guns.

Even though we claim to have ‘evolved’ to a more refine being over the years, the law of survival still applies. As the human race learned to survive, it kept getting better at it. It got so good at it that its survival eventually became the desire to destroy a fellow human or worse an entire fellow human race. It was no longer just about survival, it was about thriving. The human race had now passed the test of survival and moved on to the battle within them.

In the animal kingdom, which humans regardless of how it can be claimed are a superior part of, has simple principles. It’s about survival to begin with. Once the race of survival has been won, the next one begins. This is a  far more sophisticated and a more complex battle. Here it’s not about just surviving, it’s about thriving. Humans quickly learned that not all of them can survive AND thrive. there will always be the survivors and the thrive-ers.

The thriving class has passed the test of survival, or just had an environment where survival was inevitable. The only challenge was to thrive. But does this mean that those humans that thrived, will never learn to survive? Will they, once exposed to a hostile environment not be able to survive?

Did the baby not learn how to get its food? It was human after all.