The Will To Live

 May 19, 2022: I have been a passionate afficionado of flower gardening for  30 years or more.

The greens this spring seem especially, wondrously lush, appealing, warn and vital. My enjoyment and enthusiasm. I do not know when I have enjoyed as much I am right now--observing, participating with, and interacting with nature.

The spring migration is in full swing. It occurred to me that the flora and fauna all around me love life as much or more than I do and they relish living and flourishing. They are expressing that love of life by existing.

Plants and animals want to live, to work, and procreate, perpetuating their species. They enjoy themselves and enjoy living without hesitancy, self-doubt or second-guessing as to whether rushing about executing the business of living is worth all this fuss. Their actions fervently seem to be how they say yes without doubt, without pondering.

Life and death are inextricably interwoven in nature, as one creature lives by killing another creature. On the natural stage are a whirlwind of little plays running at the same time, where revealed are acts that are kind, merciless, brutal, murderous, horrible, and fascinating as one intertwined complexity.

Animals enjoy their guiding instincts: they love life and enjoy it as it is and that it is. Perhaps Ayn Rand, for humans, was recommending a similar pure, love of life and living, and that there is something ennobling and virtuous about leading a full, happy, and purposeful life. 

Many, maybe most humans do not love life. Why? Humans lack the instinct to love life unconditionally as do flora and fauna.

People are evil, godless, lazy, misdirected, lack free will and group-live, and all these cumulative downer-forces suppress the healthy human will to live, do well and make something of one's life, enjoying life to the fullest. 

These somnolent, self-loathing, sluggish nonindividuators have lost their frail, passing, childhood child-like zest for life. 

Lacking the animals’ instincts for enjoying life, without introduction to the psychology of Mavellonialism, people do not know how to live, and have never been artificially taught a culturally provided set of childhood "good instincts" to love life always and to know how to live well.

Each generation prefers actual death or living death to anticipating the leading a long life to live life to the fullest as an accomplished maverizer.