When I studied biology in college, I learned that animals, including humans, have something called the "fight or flight" instinct.
As I recall, it is an animal’s evolutionary adaptive tendency to either deal with a confrontation by either putting up a "fight" for survival or running in hope of surviving another day. If a creature is witless about when to run, then it would likely tend to not survive very long. Evolution selects the “fight or flight” witless for extinction. That is an example iof where the word "dodo" came from and where that species went. Fear of extinction drives the desire for survival.
I've realized that at many times, any tough decision in life, any challenge undertaken, is the replay of the fight or flight scenario. It's the confrontation of the individual with the fear, opposition, and desire for something better, for something to lift the person up to a higher level than just basic survival. The "fight" is the improvement, it is the way to a person being "better." This is what makes the world a better place to live. But the "flight" is the running, or escape from the challenge. It's often a shrinking of the person, a step back toward survival, a safe place for another day. The flight is often unnoticed because it's too easy. Often the second chance never arrives, the window of opportunity never opens again, the hope of a different, better life passes you by.
I say, don't believe it! Don't believe that a flight away from the fight is right. It's only right if the flight was needed to remake that "window" of opportunity. If you wait for the second chance, it won't come because you're not in control - not unless you make the opportunity happen. Life is too short to sit on the sidelines. Make a plan with vision and rise to the challenge. If you fail to plan, then you're planning to fail. The only way you can achieve immortality is to write it down. It's called a legacy. Make sure you can leave a good one.
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God created man with a body that possesses an animus that is like unto an animal's animus, but placed within this biological construct a mentis which is not like unto an animal's thoughts. It is this mentis which is said to have been created in the image of God.
ReplyDeleteThe animal cannot choose to overcome his instincts. The human possessing compos mentis can choose to reject the biological impulses which seek to cause him to react unthinkingly.