Nature is deceitful.

Nature is a very deceitful system if we look at it in the perspective of an individual which I beyond any reasonable doubt am convinced that we do have the unquestionable right to. One might question how. How is nature deceitful? The answer is very simple if you look deeply enough to a certain level on which I am not saying there isn't a deeper level of perspective on.

Look at us. Struggling to survive, striving for reward and running away from the opposite blindly without knowing the real reason behind it all. Well it is not our fault. It is the deceitful nature of nature that has entrapped us all without our consent. But wait there is more. Nature's entrapment is deeply rooted in us that we are so attached to them. It has given us many pleasures to strive for like appreciation, love, fame, power, glory etc. It also has given us displeasures to flee from like pain, shame, stress, sorrow, discomfort etc all in the name of getting us involved in life so that we will strive, achieve, and avoid things and in return ensure the survival and inbetterment of life. Unless involved in life completely and fully we wouldn't mind anything and thus our chances of inbetterment and survival sink tremendously. That is where the tactic and deceit come in. Being involved fully ensures our struggle for survival and thus increases the chances of our survival.

It is not fair. I didn't ask to be alive. Neither did I to experience pain nor pleasure. But I do anyway. Without those experiences, I wouldn't struggle. Nothing to strive for, nothing to avoid. This would just put me in the face of danger and even then I wouldn't have a thought.

The problem would arise when looked at a larger scale. If nobody wants or needs anything, there wouldn't be acts to ensure our survival let alone the next generation. There wouldn't even be a next generation since we wouldn't desire to do anything. Danger would come our way and we wouldn't flinch thus annihilation.

It is to ensure its own survival that life entrapped us in these feelings of needs, wants, fears, displeasures and so on. It is not fair since we weren't asked for our consent as individuals. There is just our emotions telling us 'there is danger get away from it' or 'there is pleasure there and you need it, go get it'. If we refuse then comes sorrow and pain which we feel without a choice. I mean it is just not fair.

There are of course deeper levels that we can go into to look at life. Which is that we are life itself. We are part of life. But there is a problem. The problem being that, if that is true, we were not designed to know it naturally and even if we did knowing it is not enough. We naturally do not experience the reality that we are life itself rather than individuals as individuals. That gives us the reason to argue that nature is deceitful and entrapped us all unfairly.

                                                                                                    By Alazar Desta