Happiness and Survival

Survival of the fittest. Is that not what we were taught as kids? Is that not what the community has offered us? Is that not what the world of democracy has become? Society pressures us to survive at any cost. The media tells us to strive for what we want and the best of us would make it. Democracy tells us that the one who works the most is the one who would attain the riches. Agree? Correct me if I'm wrong.

Now, is there such a difference between the first and third world countries? People in the first world claim that those such as the Africans are savages. People in the first world claim that fighting for what they, not want but need is barbaric. Yet, that's all they can do isn't it? Desperate times calls for desperate measures.

People of the first world, I dare say, strive for a "befitting" house. Those of the third world, on the other hand, fight for what shelter they can find. People of the first world work their whole lives to educate their children to fullfill what they never had a chance to. People of the third world risk their lives to feed a family of seven. First worlds offers opportunity, third worlds forces them. First worlds promote leisure, third provokes survival. First worlds pursue pleasures while the third worlds struggle to avoid anger.

Third world countries such as Africa have been and still is war stricken caused by the gluttony of the first, the third and every other world in between. A place as such is plagued by famine and starvation. Days pass as men are plagued by fatal diseases while women bear an infant of little hope praying that the quantity of children would create opportunities. Opportunities are their ONLY hope; their only option, in their minds, are the rabbit-like quantity(and sizes) of infants. They are not repulsive savages. They are people of the same calibur, people of flesh and blood, people who are desperate for hope. This very same desperation has compelled them, just as we would, to survive.

Men are men, despite the cultures, men are still men. Our pursuit is happiness, our obligation is survival.