More importantly, “survival” requires more than just surviving something for a few minutes, hours or even days. It takes weeks, months and sometimes years to survive as a person!
Survival is about living well – not only in difficult times, but also at any time. Living well means developing skills that help you feel good about yourself and your life. These could be personal skills like self-care or career skills like working as a doctor or teacher.
It can include social skills like how to communicate, work with people and lead. And it may mean improving your health through eating right, exercising and quitting smoking. All of these things contribute to long term wellness.
The Meaning of “Survival”
In reality, there is no such thing as absolute survival. We assign what meaning we give to the word ‘survive’ in relation to different situations.
For example, if someone says they are going to survive being hit by a bus, they may be referring to escaping death for a short time while getting help or finding something helpful to put between their skin and the vehicle.
That could mean staying awake until help arrives or looking under the car for tools or blankets that can be used to push back against it. It might also refer to waiting at a hospital for an ambulance.
But if they use the term ‘survive’ without any qualifiers, they probably don’t intend to stay longer than a few minutes — unless they have practiced this method before.
By using the word survive with no context, people usually want to get out quickly because they assume that anything beyond that will not make a difference. They believe that trying harder or changing how they approach life will keep them from having to repeat past actions.
However, research shows that this assumption is wrong. By avoiding difficult conversations, limiting self-care practices, denying your own needs, and refusing to acknowledge your limitations, these things only perpetuate the cycle of stress.
It’s like a vicious circle where you’re constantly putting yourself into uncomfortable positions to “keep up” with how stressed you claim other people made you feel.
Why You Should Be More Selfish
Survival of the fittest is not only an excellent philosophical concept, but it can also be applied to your daily life. Being more selfish in nature helps you survive as a person and as a member of the community.
This isn’t saying that you should go out of your way to take care of only yourself first; rather, you need to make sure that you’re taking care of yourself before you worry about others.
You have a duty to yourself to learn and develop skills that will help you to feel good about yourself and achieve your goals.
By giving yourself these chances to succeed, you are helping to ensure that you don’t stay stuck in a rut. You’re investing in yourself so that one day you can look back and say you gave yourself a chance to live beyond just surviving.
You have a moral obligation to put in effort into developing yourself so that one day you can call yourself a successful person. It’s your responsibility to give yourself the best possible chance to succeed in this world.
How To Survive In A World That Doesn’t Care For You
Surviving is not about being strong or tough, it is not about having lots of resources to help yourself feel better, it is not about living in what some call The Me Generation, where people have their phones and TVs and things like that and spend most of their time watching TV and surfing the net, it is not even about having enough money to buy food and drink.
Survival is about going beyond those things. It’s about using up all your resources and still staying alive. It’s about finding ways to use what you’ve got to make the best of it.
It’s also about realizing that the world doesn’t care much for you – at times it can seem like an alienating environment. But there are strategies for how to work with this, survive without its benefits and be happy while doing so.
It takes practice but I hope my book will give you some tools to learn these strategies and apply them.
How To Survive When Things Go Wrong
Survival is more than just being able to use natural resources effectively, it is also about how to live your life in difficult situations.
Survival is not only about eating well and resting when needed, it is also about persevering in an effort to achieve your goals.
If you want to survive, then you have to believe that you can succeed!
There are many examples of people who have survived great tragedies or catastrophes, these individuals proved that they were willing to work hard to fulfill their dreams.
I will never forget watching a video where someone drove a truck onto a highway with an open vehicle bodywork, causing heavy damage to the car behind.
The driver remained at the scene and helped others, before going into action to save his own car which was completely smashed up. He didn’t run away, instead he worked tirelessly to restore some form of composure to himself and to help others.
He didn’t expect anything in return for his actions but what he received was hope for the lives of those around him. His selfless acts gave them all a chance to rebuild from a different base and to strive towards a better future.
Surviving a crisis comes down to having enough strength within yourself to motivate yourself to put in the necessary efforts to fix the situation. You need to be aware of your surroundings and potential dangers so you know if it is time to take action or stay still until help arrives.
Do you know what it means to survive? Are you aware of how important it is to survive?
Survival is more than just living. It’s living with dignity, understanding that things will not always go your way but you are still in control. It’s having confidence in yourself and your abilities so that you can handle anything life throws at you.
It’s respecting and honoring yourself enough to keep learning and changing for the better. It’s taking care of yourself physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Survival is about being honest with yourself and giving yourself credit for trying even when you feel like you cannot anymore. It’s believing in yourself and others more than they believe in themselves.
That is why it’s so important to never give up. You have too much going for you to allow yourself to stop trying.
You are alive today because someone decided to push you out of their bed and get up every morning to make sure you had food to eat and shelter to return to.
They believed in you and gave you reason to believe in yourself. That person was me, and I am talking about myself here. 🙂
I hope you use this information to inspire you to put in the effort to achieve your dreams and to help you to motivate yourself to stay on track.
Survival is about living through something
Surviving means staying alive for now, not necessarily thriving or flourishing. Surviving can be for just a few minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, depending on what situation we are in.
Survival is also different according to who you are and what you want to achieve. For some, surviving each day may mean eating a balanced diet and doing things they have practiced for life, while for others it could mean escaping with your life.
For example, someone may survive being pushed off a bridge but probably wouldn’t thrive because of fear of water. Others may find purpose in helping other people avoid death by jumping off the same bridge.
You need to live through something to learn from it
Surviving is more about what you make of your life than it is about living for material things or chasing dreams. It’s not about having lots of money, owning lots of things, or being famous.
It’s not even about escaping death, although that can be inspiring.
Survival is about going beyond what you are given to enjoy the present moment. Living in the moment means enjoying what you have right now – whether it’s a good conversation with someone, or listening to an album you have been wanting to hear for weeks.
You also must survive loneliness. Acknowledging how much time you spend alone and making changes to address this will help you enjoy the people in your life more.
And surviving mean staying optimistic despite adversity. Even if you feel like giving up, you don’t deserve to walk away until you made an effort to appreciate where you came from and who helped inspire you.
You must experience life to grow
We live in an increasingly connected world, where technology makes it easy to access virtually any information. Therefore, most people have experienced at least some part of what we call “the good time” or “the pleasant day”.
For example, they’ve either watched sports with friends or listened to music together. Perhaps there was food and drinks for sharing afterwards.
However, aside from these experiences, very few have actually lived before. They remain within their own personal boundaries and that’s okay!
It is important to establish those personal borders though. It takes effort, courage and self-confidence — all things that take work.
As human beings, we need to feel that our lives are worth something, that we’re not wasting our time here but instead investing in ourselves and moving forward.
This article will talk about five key components to consider when defining your survival. Some are more relevant than others depending on your situation, lifestyle and goals.
But if you want to develop true survival skills, then this list should be focused on, at the very least.