What does it mean to survive? When and where does survival take place? How are people supposed to survive? Why can some people do so, while others cannot? By definition, survival is the state of continuing to live or exist, despite a complicated circumstance. With this in mind, life itself provides those circumstances, so it is what people need to survive. Life starts without people's consent - meaning that no one gets to choose to be born - but most of them still make attempts to live genuinely happy until their inevitable end, surviving various trials. On the negative side, for those who view life as being meaningless, surviving is also the same. Nevertheless, in life full of unexpected events, surviving means living life to the fullest to
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To begin with, surviving means being prepared for the next events in life, even it appears hopeless. By saying that there is a threat, a person may suffer from a mentally traumatic involvement or struggle in health. For example, in Hiroshima by John Hersey, the survivors of the atomic bomb were fortunate to be alive, but it gave them physical and mental sufferings that were hard to recover. All the survivors could not be happy very quickly, because they were exhausted from the terrible memories of those days, and the radiation that still sickens to cancer. In this case, these misfortunes made some of them wish for death, becoming depressed. However, survivor Miss Sasaki chose not to “dwell on the past,” in order to “keep moving forward” (126). In the attempt to live life to the fullest, people must move on to the next chunk of life after surviving their hardships. In contrast, some people choose to
To begin with, surviving means being prepared for the next events in life, even it appears hopeless. By saying that there is a threat, a person may suffer from a mentally traumatic involvement or struggle in health. For example, in Hiroshima by John Hersey, the survivors of the atomic bomb were fortunate to be alive, but it gave them physical and mental sufferings that were hard to recover. All the survivors could not be happy very quickly, because they were exhausted from the terrible memories of those days, and the radiation that still sickens to cancer. In this case, these misfortunes made some of them wish for death, becoming depressed. However, survivor Miss Sasaki chose not to “dwell on the past,” in order to “keep moving forward” (126). In the attempt to live life to the fullest, people must move on to the next chunk of life after surviving their hardships. In contrast, some people choose to