When you ask someone for their opinion on the purpose of human life, you often receive generic responses such as “To live, laugh, and love,” or to “experience the world.” While those answers may be true, I believe in a simpler answer of the two S’s. Survival and Self- Improvement.
Ever since the beginning of mankind, humans have retained the natural instinct to survive. And to do so, humans had to self-improve, whether it be through the creation of tools, weapons, fire, etc… Without one there isn’t the other, and to this present year, if you think very carefully about every action a human being makes in this world, it all still ties back to surviving or self-improving in order to survive.
And yet, humans have the uncanny ability to never realize the importance of survival and self-improvement until it’s too late. Students procrastinate until the night before a test, only to realize that the only chance of survival is an attempt at self-improving through studying all night. Individuals facing health risks through obesity realize that they should have been self-improving their eating habits all along. And our civilization pollutes and exploits the land, until one day, we’ve realized that we’ve depleted all the natural resources and destroyed our world to a point where self-improvement no longer is an option.