The Law of Life
“Me first, Baby!” How selfish that sounds! To our Western ears, attuned as they are to such rubbish as “God first, others second, me last,” it strikes us as positively blasphemous to suggest that God is big enough to take care of himself and that He might have put us here to learn love by practicing it on ourselves before forcing it on others.
Every living thing, flora or fauna, survives by feeding, either directly or indirectly, on other living things.
That is not the law of the jungle. It is the law of life. We all feed off each other.
As much as we may detest the idea, sooner or later in our journey most of us are forced to acknowledge that life can be appallingly violent, brutal, and indifferent, and that we, too, are -- at least apparently -- capable of great selfishness on behalf of ourselves and our loved ones (often to the exclusion of the latter), or apparently so.
Every living thing, flora or fauna, survives by feeding, either directly or indirectly, on other living things.
That is not the law of the jungle. It is the law of life. We all feed off each other.
As much as we may detest the idea, sooner or later in our journey most of us are forced to acknowledge that life can be appallingly violent, brutal, and indifferent, and that we, too, are -- at least apparently -- capable of great selfishness on behalf of ourselves and our loved ones (often to the exclusion of the latter), or apparently so.
posted by Old Timer at 2:47 PM
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