SurviVal Of FitteSt
Posted On Thursday, October 8, 2009 at at 4:29 AM by SundarS
“Survival of the fittest”This is famous phrase by Herbert Spencer after reading Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species”. Personally I like this phrase, not only me, everyone who is struggling to succeed in their life or who already succeeded would love this phrase as fitting ourselves for the surroundings or saying it as “adaptability”, is important in all ages of life. Right from very old ages, this theory played very significant role. Many animals became extinct species which were incapable to adapt itself. Animals like Giraffe adapt to its environment and so it’s still surviving.
To make it clear, if lion needs to survive, it should struggle among its individual or its superior and also environmental conditions, one with ‘best’ character survives else it fails. If it fails, it should adapt to the conditions, where changes occur slowly i.e. very slowly it transfers to its offspring’s, so that they get some advanced characteristics than its parents, become dominant among the population and thus survives. If it fails in any stages, then lion may become extinct species. This is known as ‘Natural selection’ as per Darwin.
I like mosquito very much which is best example for the above said theory. If we get some liquidator or any mosquito repellent coils, for few days, it works well and later, mosquitoes adapt to the repellent and do its work as usual. I understand this well when few government servers sprayed DDT with help of some machine as step to prevent malaria in our town. I was at class ‘6’, I guess. We as usual played in streets and played with this DDT fog too. I asked one of my friends about this as I don’t know for what reason it is was sprayed all over. He said the reason, but mosquitoes bit us again in two or three minutes. Then someone in the street told me that they got adapted to this DDT as it’s used for the past 50 yrs. I guess this as best example for above said theory. It get adapted to it and very slowly it got resistant against DDT, generation by generation and showed its ‘best’ character and survived in spite of DDT now. From then, I like this phrase very much as I always wish myself to adapt according to the environment.
Every one like to face the victory and be a champ but that doesn’t happen every time. There are hurdles that stop our triumph often, called as failures. Failures are stepping stone for success and so, survival of fittest includes facing failure, learning from the failure and converting that failure to success. So to do the above said things, hard work is the key for success. So the conclusion is, to survive we need three aspects i.e. adaptability, acceptability and hard work. But now days, we need one more thing or character to survive which is on the top of all, called as ‘Luck’ or ‘Fight against Luck’ which decides everything. Really it’s hard to fight against luck, if our time is good; luck favors or else just breezes. Word ‘Luck’ is often used by IT people like us and especially rookies like me. Luck plays major role then talents and stuff he or she has. So to survive in this IT world, we need four aspects “Adaptability”, “Acceptability”, “Hard work” and “ ‘Luck’ or ‘ability to fight against luck’ ”. I am often seeing many youngsters in temple now days praying the lord to get the so called luck. For no reason, talented guys are fired and without any technical knowledge, few are getting some good projects and all because of so called ‘Luck’. If an individual like me struggle to show my ‘best’ character in order to survive, those ‘best’ characters are not recognized unless ‘Luck’ favors. If ‘luck’ doesn’t favors, then what is the use of showing my ‘best’ characters? To get recognized, to dominant among other individuals like me, ‘Luck’ should kick off, so that I can fly sky high. If luck just gives a trigger, then one who has ability to survive among the individuals can survive in any field.
Nowadays, I am preparing mentally to face my luck in order to survive.
To be dominant this world, I should inherit ‘best’ character as per Darwin’s theory and shud wait for luck to kick off. Doing that inheritance really need lot of patience and loads of time in front of the desktop. “Patience” is another character that shud be inherited in order survive among the rivals. Survival will be there till this world survives and we shud inherit as much as possible to dominate the world and be the top among the rest of the individual.
In the end, theory doesn’t change but the fight plan changes as per the time and environment. One can smell victory if he or she understands the phrase “Survival of the fittest or call it as ‘luckiest’ ”
