The Will To Live - The Drive For Survival

 


Will To Live

Proverbs 18:14-24

14 Your will to live can sustain you when you are sick, but if you lose it, your last hope is gone.

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Genetic variation is a necessity in life, so the purpose of life is to procreate to pass on genetic material. The tendency to procreate is natural since it is such an important part of life. Similarly, puberty is considered a life changing moment because of one's ability to have children.

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The desire to live and to reproduce are closely tied. Survival in very simple organisms means replicating themselves. Through evolution by natural selection, basic organisms became increasingly complex, resulting in humans, butterflies, lions, spiders etc.

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Our biological urge is to have sex, not to make babies. Our “instinct to breed” is the same as a squirrel's instinct to plant trees: the urge is to store food, trees are a natural result. If sex is an urge to procreate.

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The will to live or Wille zum Leben is a concept developed by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, Will being an irrational "blind incessant impulse without knowledge" that drives instinctive behaviors, causing an endless insatiable striving in human existence, which Nature could not exist without.

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*In psychology, the will to live is the drive for self-preservation, usually coupled with expectations for future improvement in one's state in life. The will to live is an important concept when attempting to understand and comprehend why we do what we do in order to stay alive, and for as long as we can.

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*Look at the above; this means there is an inherent drive in all the animal kingdom to survive. So when people migrate it's usually for good reason. That said, why do people get mad when this is done?!

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Why do people migrate [move] / immigrate [move to another country permanently]

14 Reasons Why People Emigrate

Immigration has existed during the whole history of humankind and people have moved from their home places for centuries, for all sorts of reasons.

Long ago nomad tribes roamed in search of new pastures for their livestock, new places for hunting, and fishery. After people started to migrate, in search of more fertile lands and create new settlements. Today migration still takes place all around the world, is the process that takes place when an individual or a group lives one country for another with the intention to settle permanently down in that country.

Immigration is also a phenomenon that happens inside the countries as well, people leave the rural areas and move to the capital or larger cities looking for better opportunities.

Among the major regions of the world, the largest number of international migrants in 2020 resided in Europe, with a total of 87 million. Northern America hosted the second largest number of migrants, with almost 59 million. Northern Africa and Western Asia followed with a total of nearly 50 million.



1. To Escape Conflict Zones

This is one of the older and most common causes of immigration people feel the need to leave their country of birth to escape conflict and feel safe. Individuals living in war-torn countries like some parts of the middle east, feel the need to immigrate to get away from the fighting and to escape danger.

Between 2000 and 2020, the number that had fled conflict, crises, persecution, violence, or human rights violations doubled from 17 to 34 million.

2. Due To Environmental Factors

Climate change also has a responsibility for immigration, with the continually over nature through force. Sometimes nature strikes back rendering man homeless and helpless. Due to sudden storms, floods, tsunamis, and several other natural disasters people need to flee and seek asylum in another relatively safer environment.

3. Escape Poverty

Can be a big difference between salaries and working conditions between countries, many developed countries provide a social network that makes those countries attractive for people from less developed countries.
Also, many people immigrate to escape from high unemployment and lack of opportunities in their home country.

In 2020, 73 percent of all international migrants were between the ages of 20 and 64 years, compared to 57 percent for the total population.

4. High Standard Of Living

By moving to a different nation, you people are looking for a higher standard of living. Not talking only about money but cleaner, healthier, and a better quality of life.

Nearly two thirds of all international migrants live in high-income countries

5. Personal Needs

Some people genuinely believe they belong in a different country. Many times minorities (religious or sexual) have seen the need to move from their home country to a more tolerant nation, so they can begin the life they always wanted.

6. Higher Education

This is one of the top reasons people immigrate, especially the younger ones are to pursue higher education in a field that can be not available in their country, or better universities are available abroad. Once you move to study many times, they enjoy better their new place and extend their stay indefinitely.

7. Love

Now isn’t necessarily people to meet in person, the internet opens new opportunities to everybody, and brings people closer together emotionally. Every day people are moving to the other end of the world people to be with their loved ones, it isn’t as strange and uncommon as it sounds.

8. Family Influences

When a family member moves abroad, and friend and family from back home can see how well they’ve settled in, developing a new life and enjoying their new lifestyle it adds an aspiration value of moving too. It also gives you enough stimulus to think that you will have someone to support you when you initially move.

9. Advertisement offer a better life

Have been cases during history that countries offer excellent conditions and initial support to immigrants that fulfil certain requirements, like for example knowing the language, certain age or ready to live in a particular area of the welcoming country.

10. Better Healthcare

Depending on your financial situation you would like to provide the best possible healthcare to your family. Some people migrate to access affordable healthcare. Several nations offer free healthcare to their citizens.

11. Be Closer to Nature

Many people shift their entire lives, leaving their old life behind so that they can live closer to nature. It happens more frequently than you may think.

12. Political Reasons

Some people immigrate from restrictive countries in search of political freedom. Some change their citizenship to gain a new identity, and some to get political rights that were missing in the home country.

13. Seeking change or adventure

Many adventure-seekers stay for less than a couple of years, but some stay longer and start a new life in the chosen country.

14. Missionary work

They are sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country, and many times they decide to stay in the country that they were sent.

These are some of the top reasons why people immigrate! If you are one of those who are planning to immigrate, then it is always a good idea to get first-hand information about the country you planning to move, not all that glitters is gold.

While the reasons to move may seem different, everyone that moves and take the step to immigrate do it to improve their lives, remember isn’t a natural process, can be big stress and even dangerous, let’s be more tolerant and help immigrants to integrate to our society.

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None of our first ancestors were born in the U.S.; they came from another country.

My maternal grandfather's family came from France --> Ontario, CA --> Michigan & Poland --> England --> St. Louis Missouri --> Grandpa --> California

My maternal grandmother's family came from Scotland --> England --> Maine & Germany --> Pennsylvania, Ohio, then Michigan --> Grandma --> California

My stepdad's family [maternal and paternal] came from Asiago, Italy --> Chicago --> Montana --> Burbank

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There is so much trash talking of Mexicans on social media, and I've heard it for years in others' conversations. Hate it!

My stepdad's nanny from Mexico, his 2nd wife Hispanic heritage, many of my friends & most of my boyfriends either born in Mexico or here, my kids first crushes also of Mexican heritage, my daughter's  Godmother born in Mexico.

I met and helped a 15 year old boy from Ecuador get to a family member's house. He traveled for 6 weeks, because him and his brother and Mom were starving; their dad had passed away, he then was abandoned by the coyote in San Diego. I and my work partner met him in Pomona where he had been panhandling outside of McDonald's for food and hiding underneath cars to escape and gang fallout.

Think about this; who could survive this as a teenager? We had 3 choices -- leave him, turn him over to immigration, or help him. We helped him get to his cousins so he could start working and get $$ back his mom and brother. Aiding an illegal immigrant is a felony. Guess I am wrong, I am a lawbreaker. That's too f* bad!

This was a child willing to risk his life so his family could eat. [This is a bad thing?]

Being hungry is a horrible thing; starvation is another and it causes people to do things they normally wouldn't.; like panhandle and steal. In Italy, if someone can prove extreme poverty, then it's okay for them to take food from a market.

My coworker had twins that were 12 and Mallory was 12; it wasn't hard to decide what we needed to do. I believe that  Humanitarianism superseded the law that day. Thus, wanting a better life, wanting to eat and be sheltered is automatic drive that we all have. Of course we helped him; he was a child!! Given the circumstances, I would do it again. I am a first born caretaker [my employment history proof of it ... pharmacy, teacher, health educator ... my coworker; health educator and nurse]; a no-brainer for both of us! How could we turn away from him?

You see these citizens run to a flipped over or burning car to rescue the trapped person(s) inside, what my coworker and I did is the same thing. We saw an emergency case of someone suffering and we remedied the situation.

Finally, on this topic, this boy could've just permanently panhandled, but he went to work, got married, had kids, and sends $$ back to his family. Unlike many US natural born people, who drink and drug and somehow get permanent, fraudulent disability, the boy that we helped chose the path of the American dream. It's not wrong, it was probably the last choice him and his family had. He took that chance.

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People come to the US because it's the greatest country, a first choice by many. Land of the brave, home of the free.

I see on social media, crap said about Mexicano/as; they take all the jobs or they're lazy. Well, which one is it? 
Take all the jobs?
or
Lazy?

You can't have it both ways.

And I've already debunked all the other myths about the largest groups of welfare .... Whites lol lol lol

Food stamps -- a good thing, everyone should have access to food healthy food and the ability to purchase it.

Welfare -- seen the cost of things lately? There is nothing wrong with helping people or people reaching out for help.

Lastly, next time you want to judge someone for being here, or wanting to be here, go take a ride on ancestry.com and them come talk to me!!




 

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