Why do we try to survive?

Question from the Internet:

“Why does everyone try to survive?”

Survival and trying to enjoy survival as much as we can, trying to maximally fulfill ourselves while we exist is programmed in us.

It is these instincts of survival and aiming at maximum fulfillment, gaining pleasures while avoiding pain is the fundamental operating software that drives us in everything we do. On the other hand, as long as we follow this operating software blindly and instinctively, we are not different from other animals in any respect. Our desires and the aimed for fulfillment might be a bit more sophisticated, but the basic driving desires are exactly the same. Moreover, contrary to animals, we are also self-destructive and behave like cancer towards each other and towards the natural environment that gave birth to us and our life depends on.

Our “truly Human” existence starts only when we start asking about why we exist, why we try to survive. We become Human only when we start taking the questions about “meaning and purpose” of life seriously and start investigating to the point, where our “Human purpose” in life becomes the single most important driving force and everything else fades into the background.

Our day-to-day concern and fight for survival will make sense only when we finally understand and feel why we survive and what our unique, predetermined evolutionary Human role is in nature’s lawful and deterministic system. This is so much so, that when we finally recognize and exist through that purpose, we will look back at our present life as not living or existing at all.