Adversity

    Often, I lie and wonder, as many of us probably have, at why life has been a constant struggle for me. Never getting ahead; every solved problem replaced with half a dozen more. It never seemed to make sense, and all too often I would, like many people, play the "poor me" game. Fortunately (and many would attest that it is all too rare to consider a lack of ignorace as "fortune" for the downtrodden), logic prevails me. It isn't just me. How many of us can relate? Too many. We have all been prey to easy money-making scams of one type or another - some posing as job opportunities - trying to just stay a little bit ahead in times of crisis such as the one we are facing now as a nation. Yet still we struggle just to pay our bills. It's all about money. Always has been.

    Thinking back however, this isn't new. The strong have always preyed on the weak. This is nature's way. It is pushing us as a species towards strength; the weak dying out and the strong having a greater chance of propagating those strong traits, strong genes, into successive generations. Cavemen died if they were not good at acquiring food. Now, strength is determined by monetary success - the intellectual capacity of one being to be able to connive or obtain hard-earned dollars from another. Ultimately, it is intelligence that nature is favoring.

    Even on a microscopic level, there is adversity. The bullies of the cellular world - virii, bacterium, etcetera - are thwarted regularly as our bodies build immunities to them and breed those immunities into our children. But the adversaries are not gone for good. They evolve as well, to survive the new hostile environment our bodies have created for them, a new flu sweeping the globe every year. Adversity evolves with us, or else it would no longer pose a challenge. This is the natural plan. If every cell in our body is fighting every moment for its life, it is no wonder that the whole of our existance seems plagued with challenges, every day. If we fail, nature has no use for us. If we succeed, we breed.
   
    You can see it at every level you choose to look. The planets orbiting their suns bear a remarkable resemblance to the structure of valence electrons orbiting the nucleus of an atom. The structure is the same. The rules are similar. Adversity is nature's way of preventing stagnation, spurring the evolution and continuity of our species. We don't know what we are heading towards, be it divine plan or the ultimate being by natural design, but we are moving nonetheless and it is all thanks to those daily challenges when viewed in the abstract.
  
    Now we have a choice. Do we choose to find our niche, like many clever species do throughout the animal kingdom? Do we find our shady rock in the desert? Life is evolving on a minute level, even in sulfuric acid! If an orgaism can do that, I can find a way to pay my bills. No more "poor me" parties. I will contribute something to this world in the time I am allotted. I will earn the continuity of the genes I was given. I am a blogger. Hear me roar.