Something About Survival

Ever wonder what it has taken for us

as a species to get here where we are

today? When you think about it, the

whole generational progression has

been a complex and amazing transfor-

mational undertaking. Think about the

polarities in personalities; some folks

get along; many folks don’t. But in

order to survive and thrive, we have

mostly developed a desire to see that

in most cases things work out. Nature

has it’s ways of propagating the con-

tinuation of the species. Many only

make it so far and are eventually for

one reason or another relegated to the

scrap heap of extinction. Given wars,

famine, epidemic, disease and blight,

given natural disasters, knife, gunshot,

automobile, shipping, rail and airline

casualties, lion and tiger maulings

and venomous snake and spider bites,

given divorce, separation and abandon-

ment and suicide, and when I consider

my own failed relationships with others,

I am truly amazed that the human race

has managed to survive on Planet Earth

this long. I suppose an unwavering faith

in our better angels, or a sincere if not a

wishful naivete that goodness and unity

of purpose in us will somehow prevail.

And to get to this point in our tenuous

and topsy-turvy history of evolution,

I pause to wonder, how many times has

one person looked at another square in

the eye and said, Let’s give this thing

one more try?

Chris Hanch 7-5-19