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		<title>The Purpose in Life is Not Just to Survive</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know how people give excuses like &#8220;survival of the fittest&#8221; and &#8220;kill or be killed&#8221; for being full of shits or to do shits to others?
I&#8217;m not having any more of it.
I&#8217;m also tired of listening to &#8220;the other&#8221; side of the problem about this &#8220;big question&#8221; in life: Why are we here?
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>You know how people give excuses like &#8220;survival of the fittest&#8221; and &#8220;kill or be killed&#8221; for being full of shits or to do shits to others?</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not having any more of it.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m also tired of listening to &#8220;the other&#8221; side of the problem about this &#8220;big question&#8221; in life: Why are we here?</p>
<p>&#8220;The other&#8221; side makes jokes about life, diminishes the sanctity of it, and looks down on the quest for the truth. They say life is just life. There&#8217;s nothing more to it. You eat, drink, take a good shit, sleep, and repeat. We made the whole thing about the importance of life up.</p>
<p>When I first heard their side of the story, I was speechless for a while. Hey, maybe we did make everything up! Maybe they&#8217;re right! Life does not matter nor does morals or values! I thought about it for a couple of years and now I&#8217;ve decided &#8211; NO, we didn&#8217;t make it up! Life does matter! So does morals, values, spirituality, and everything else! Thank God we each have a say and I don&#8217;t have to be imprisoned by their opinions (they don&#8217;t have to agree with mine either). As far as my eyes, brains, heart, and soul can see, there is more to life than just surviving. So it was a conscious decision that I&#8217;ve made to believe in life beyond mere surviving because I did listen to their side of the story and contemplated with it for so long. But now I&#8217;m even more sure of myself.</p>
<p>Hur, I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve experienced this before but karma is a bitch. It&#8217;s as real as the hemorrhoid in the ass. Some call it retribution, math calls it probability, you may insist it&#8217;s coincidence, my mom calls it fate, but whichever term you fancy, it exists and it&#8217;s constantly bracing itself for another attack.</p>
<p>If these people who hurt others justify their actions by saying they had to do it for survival or some noble cause, don&#8217;t be swayed. They&#8217;re FOS. They can also justify their ridiculous behavior by saying it&#8217;s not a big deal. After all, they&#8217;re the opposers to the purpose in life. They think that in life, we just need to make a lot of money, eat as much good food, have as much fun, travel to as many places, do whatever the hell they want, and live a careless selfish life. And in order to do these, they need to get whatever&#8217;s in between out of their way. Unfortunately, the whatever&#8217;s in between many a time happens to involve someone else&#8217;s valuable life.</p>
<p>Very obviously, life is not just about surviving. Why? Because we&#8217;re all going to die. It&#8217;s as simple as that. If you wanna survive so much, don&#8217;t bother. You&#8217;re gonna die anyway. That&#8217;s one thing we know for sure. So we shouldn&#8217;t try too hard at &#8220;surviving.&#8221; (&#8220;Surviving&#8221; in here means hurting others to get your way.)</p>
<p>But one thing we never know is what&#8217;s going to happen after we die. So as smart people, shouldn&#8217;t we take precautions and live carefully? Live like there&#8217;s tomorrow. Live like there&#8217;s life after death. Live like you have to face or see someone even after death. In that way, we won&#8217;t be sorry in any way.</p>
<p>So if you&#8217;re &#8220;surviving&#8221; at the expense of others, you might as well die since we&#8217;re all gonna die. If you&#8217;re gonna live, live an honorable, upright, honest life. You won&#8217;t be sorry that way. How can you be sorry that you gave your $5 to a homeless kid instead of spending it for yourself? Because if you were sorry, it&#8217;d be a waste anyway. Because you&#8217;re gonna die whether you gave the kid your money or kept it for yourself. Hopefully you have registered that by now.</p>
<p>The end.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve written this because I don&#8217;t understand the mechanism of the unbelievable people. You have seen them, the unbelievable ones. They kill others without a wink. So I&#8217;ve been thinking of ways to explain to myself and I came up with the above. In there is my stance on abortion, the business world, etc. Haha, surprising but yes they&#8217;re in there.</p>
<p>It is super hard to put my thoughts into words. I hope people don&#8217;t misunderstanding by thinking I think we all should die. LoL&#8230; it&#8217;s hard to get my mind. It&#8217;s even harder to explain what I am actually thinking. I think a lot all the time, the whole time, the whole day, every day&#8230; about life and stuff. I look forward to be enlightened again and again in the near and far future and improve my look on life. Also, I know it&#8217;ll help if I can improve my English. 加油!</p>
<p>Also, although I said it&#8217;s bullshit to step on others for your own sake, I never said I&#8217;ve never done it myself or it&#8217;s easy to avoid. Sometimes it&#8217;s really life and death. Sometimes, I wonder if I will kill someone else in order to save my mother. Sometimes, I know I would do the same or worse if I were in a dilemma that many people were in. It&#8217;s too hard sometimes. I know. But if you read my previous post, you&#8217;ll see this is why I say each and everyone of us is full of shit. We just can&#8217;t help it. In that way, we are really better off dead huh? Haha.. but nah, that&#8217;s another story. Despite our shortcomings, we should keep fighting.</p>
<p>Also, I&#8217;m not necessarily happy if people agree with me. More than the support or the lack of it, I prefer to learn from others.</p>
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