So a dear friend tagged me on his post today and we somehow managed to reach the topic of survival. He mentioned how we were brought up with the concept of survival related to the basic food, clothes and shelter and how he disagreed with the concept.
So I googled the definition of survival 'the state or fact of continuing to live or exist, typically in spite of an accident, ordeal, or difficult circumstances.'
This brought me to think that survival at each state of Maslow's hierarchy changes its lens.
Retrieved from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs on 1/9/2014
At a very basic level, you need the food, water, air, etc. for survival. As you go higher your survival becomes kind of 'high-profile'. The need for love, belonging, self-esteem becomes so high that the world seems worthless if that doesn't happen. The need at that time becomes so high that it can impact the survival of a being. Depression may result due to the absence of these needs, and affect the physiological strata ultimately.
Of course, there are variations across age groups, times, cultural influences and even other models. I guess survival and the definition of 'difficult circumstances' both are relative.
Not bad a reflection based on a FB chatter!
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