9.9 Will To Live

One of the strongest traits that we humans have when born is having the 'will to live' and survive in our world.  This drive to survive gives us motivation to confront and overcome obstacles that arise during our lifetime.  While almost totally dependent on support from others at birth, each of us during adulthood develops our own personal ways of implementing this trait.  While having this will to live and survive seems to be present in all of us, there is often an erroneous assumption that the strength of this trait is present equally in all people. Observation indicates that this is not true.  We may also erroneously assume that whatever strength is present at one point in our life will remain the same level throughout our Life Journey.   Change is a constant of life and the individual choices we make at any one point have a significant impact on the strength and direction of our will to live life.