Anarchistbanjo's World

True joy in life comes from struggling against opposition and finally achieving a hard won goal which is valued and cherished. If we are given something or it is too easy to achieve we do not value it properly and take it for granted.

Only those things which we struggle and fight for hold a lasting value to us. This is equally true in personal relationships. It is hard work to maintain a healthy relationship with someone else. It requires continuous effort.

Nothing in life stays the same, everything is changing. In our relationships with others we are either growing closer together or we are growing farther apart. It is not right to take for granted that the closeness we feel today for someone will be there tomorrow. It is not right to take the relationship for granted.

Relationships are dynamic and the greatest challenge in our lives. They are also the greatest potential for joy in our lives. There is a great difference between winning a friend and keeping a friend. There is also a great difference between winning a goal and keeping a goal.

Winning is a very important concept to understand. We must strive to win in life. Only in winning do we find the satisfaction that we crave. In contrast there is no shame in losing if we have truly tried our best. It is vital that whatever we decide to do, we do it well and to the best of our ability.

There is no room in life for halfhearted attempts. If we do to the best of our ability we will win. The outcome doesn’t even matter. Even in nature each blade of grass struggles and extends its roots against its neighbors for the nutrients in the soil and reaches upward for the life-giving rays of the sun.

This is not an act of hatred or malice toward its neighbors but an active life and of joy. There is a natural hierarchy in nature and those life forms with the greatest ability to adapt offer the most to each individual species and rise within the hierarchy.

The blade of grass that out competes its neighbors grows stronger and taller and through reproduction disseminates its genetic structure throughout the species. In the same manner the blade of grass that grows in soil where nothing else can grow expands the range of the physical environment where grass can grow. Through reproduction it also disseminates successful adaptive genetic qualities which allow the species to live under varying physical environments.

What of the mediocre blades of grass that are subdued and only managed to hold their own in a stagnant manner? They too are successful. Each blade of grass exists in an environment which is slightly different from its neighbors.

The conditions it faces are unique and contribute to the survival of the species. The blade of grass that dies in a harsh or unfavorable environment or dies because it is crowded out by other blades of grass does not die in vain.

It has tried to exist with every bit of vitality and life available to it and the manner of its struggle is also passed on to the species. In its death the message is made that life cannot exist under these conditions. The species then tends to avoid those and similar conditions that are harmful to it.

A simple blade of grass is not able to try in a halfhearted manner! By its very nature it gives in life all that it is capable of giving. Each plant performs a valuable function not only to its own species but in the releasing of oxygen it contributes to our own lives as well.

In a like manner the human race has a duty to itself and to the rest of the world to do the best it can. It has a duty to try to win in life and through winning make the world a better place for every living thing. There is also a natural hierarchy within the human race.

There are those that rise to the top by crowding out their neighbors. There are also those that rise to the top by expanding our physical world through individual discoveries and products.

If there is fault within the human race the blame is not in these people but in those that refuse to try, those that can’t even summon the strength for a halfhearted attempt at living. Still even those serve a purpose. The added burden they inflict on society has the effect of bringing out greater effort on the part of those that are able.

We all serve a valuable purpose whether we intend it or not. Each of us has our own proper place within the hierarchy of the human race and each of us will achieve that proper place. In fact we already have. Each one of us is in our proper place within the hierarchy of humanity right now