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Summary

The article reflects on the motivation to fight for survival when the outcome is certain, emphasizing the importance of living fully and building good karma.

Abstract

The article, prompted by a guest question from Dan Catalin, delves into the human instinct to fight for survival even when assured of salvation. The author candidly admits that the promise of being saved would influence one's willingness to engage in struggle. Using the example of firefighters battling wildfires without the certainty of survival, the author highlights the selflessness inherent in serving the community. The piece suggests that knowing one would always be safe could lead to a lack of excitement and challenge in life. The author advocates for living each day to its fullest, as if it were the last, and emphasizes the concept of equilibrium in the context of certainty and uncertainty. The article concludes by encouraging readers to seize the day and build good karma by treating others with kindness, without expecting reciprocity.

Opinions

  • The author believes that the certainty of being saved would naturally diminish the intensity of one's fight, as the struggle is less meaningful without the risk.
  • Firefighters exemplify selfless service and bravery, facing potential death without the assurance of safety.
  • The author suggests that life without the unknown would be monotonous, as the thrill of uncertainty and the drive to overcome challenges are what make

Life

Fight To Be Saved

Guest prompt: “If you knew you’d be saved in the end, would you still fight?”, by Dan Catalin.

Photo by frankie cordoba on Unsplash

When I read the prompt chosen by Dan Catalin, as always, my mind started to write it down, and the first thought was, “Who wouldn’t fight knowing that in the end he would be saved?

I could lie and say I would, but I’m not a liar, nor do I like lies. Fighting and knowing that after the fight you are saved is everyone’s dream.

It’s Summer, a time when society’s retards decide to set fires to forests, and we see firefighters putting out fires. Firefighters don’t know if that will be the last fire they put out, but they still go for it. Because they are at the service of the community.

Imagine if the firefighters knew that at the end of that fire, whatever the outcome, they would be saved, how many would risk (more) of their lives to put it out as quickly as possible?

One more example…

Every day when we leave the house, we don’t know if we will come back in at the end of the day, but we always leave. Knowing that we would always come back, it would be a big change, we would go out in the morning and do everything and anything, life would be boring this way.

I say, even though we don’t know if we’ll be saved or not, we should give it all, live like there’s no tomorrow. Also, the question of whether we will be saved at the end of the fight could be added for certain areas, but not all; the so-called Equilibrium.

Do you want to jump from the top of a cliff to the sea? Jump!

Do you want to canoe down the river? Go for it!

However, there is something we must also do…

Build good Karma. Not doing to others what we don’t like to be done to us. Helping and not expecting them to help us, you are building your Karma, not other people’s Karma.

Congratulations Diana C.. for this new segment, and Dan Catalin, for choosing this theme.

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