The Musical Chairs of Life

Seraphine Arkwright

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Life is a competition. Competition — just like in the wild — survival of the fittest. I've heard enough about how we are different from animals, God has incorporated in humans what no other creature has — a mind that can think. But are we really any different? I'm afraid there might not be much difference.

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Since time immemorial, humans have survived like this. We just didn’t see it. In the very beginning, we fed ourselves at the cost of animals and trees. Now, in addition to that, we build things at the cost of climate, earn money at the cost of someone who doesn’t have money, buy land at the cost of someone who doesn’t possess land, buy food at the cost of someone who cannot afford food, get a job at the cost of someone who doesn’t get a job, get a rank at the cost of someone who couldn’t get a rank, and the list goes on.

The world is a capitalist place and to think otherwise is problematic. Here you have to make the most of your opportunities, but can you do that without affecting anyone or anything? I don't think so. There is never nothing happening. You can only survive when you make the most of opportunities which others may not be able to or may not simply want to. What you have isn't because you've earned it — not that you haven't — but more because others cannot, or at least don't want to.

The people in this world will always outnumber the amenities available. Result? Competition. Only while circumstances are favorable would people be willing to engage in healthy competition, but what happens when they turn unfavorable? We will witness hell on Earth, a picture so foul it's disturbing even to imagine.

Is it wrong? Should it stop? No, and no. We wait. Nothing has to be done. We watch things unfold and see for ourselves that this is not what we have done, but what has been done to us.