Why Do People Need To Survive

“Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing”-Muhammad Ali. In situations where it seems death himself is looking you straight in the eye, people need three imperative qualities that can and will save their life: grit, faith, and intelligence. The strength you have inside yourself, the ability to overcome adversity, the hope that can drive out fear, and the wit that can make you insurmountable are what creates a survivor.

Surviving is to continue to live or exist despite dangerous or life threatening situations. There are many circumstances that could threaten the survival of a person or a group of people. Drastic situations such as the zombie apocalypse has the potential threat to wipe out the entire human population. Survival of the apocalypse will take an individual and a group's efforts, skills, and determination to escape.

The study by Darley and Latane leaves society with the knowledge that everyone who is witnessing an emergency is most likely thinking the same thing “someone else will call for help or has already” so “Always act as if you are the only person there” (Darely & Latane, 1968). The concept of situationism is the driving force behind bystander effect. Situationism is “social behavior is, to a larger extent than people commonly realize, a response to people’s social context, not a function of individual personality” (Fiske, 2010, p. 7). Individuals first have to decide if they are witnessing an emergency. Then they need to decide if they have a responsibility to act which is when situationism comes in. If there are hundreds of witnesses each individual see the situation from a different perspective and responsibility to act is diffused among the crowd. On the other hand if one individual sees an emergency and believes there is no one else to help the responsibility rests on him or her. The context of the situation will determine how an individual will react, but people should consider the reality of everyone believing someone else will react and no one reacting. Kitty Genovese would still be alive if even one person would have called the cops when the first attack started.

If you were put into the middle of nowhere with nothing to live off of, no tools, no food, no water, how would you do it? In class, we read a book called Hatchet. The boy named Brian had to survive with only a hatchet in the wilderness for over two months. He obviously had many different traits that had to change to adapt from his spoiled life in the city, to his new life in the forest with nothing. I think that there are many different traits that are really good to have during survival, but I think that the three most crucial are determination, creativity, and observation.

Survival is number 1 in the book hatchet. Brian has to learn how to survive out in the forest where his plane crashed. He has to learn how to hunt, build a shelter, and find a good stream of water that is clean. The common thing is to keep a good mindset

The bystander effect is defined as the higher the number of people who notice an emergency, the less of a chance that those bystanders will help the victim (as cited in Aronson, Wilson, Akert, & Sommers, 2015). The importance of the bystander effect is unparalleled because it determines whether humans will still help in a situation when there are other people available. Bystanders can deal with situations ranging from the mundane to the dire, but what matters is the number of those who take action.

Psychologists Bibb Latané and John Darley stated that “as the number of bystanders increase, any given bystander is less likely to notice the incident, interpret it as an emergency, and assume responsibility for taking action .” Some things that influence the bystander effect are that the more vague the situation the less likely people will intervene. Also the need to accepted in social ways, like when the other bystanders do not react, people often take this as a sign that they don't need to respond

As I am thrown from my raft into the rapids, I come to grips with reality. This is a situation I no longer have control in, as Mother Nature has wrapped her arms around me. My thoughts run rampant through my head, “Will I be alive three minutes from now?”.

What would you do if you were put into a life or death situation? You could be stranded on an island, lost in the desert, or you could even be lost at sea. There have been many incredible stories of people surviving the most bizarre circumstances, but how they did it is very intriguing. In order to survive against the odds, a person must possess courage and endurance.

Ever since the beginning of time, there has always been a need to survive no matter the cost. We all have that survival instinct within us. Some however embrace it more than others. They take risks that ensure their life with them. Many stories have been passed down from generation to generation retelling the experiences of people who have gone to extreme lengths in order to survive, some of which, I have read and found quite interesting.

The task that I was given was to determine which traits would be essential to survival. In order to do this, I read through multiple readings and ultimately chose traits and gained evidence to why the traits that I chose were especially essential in a survival situation. To me, survival is living through a mental or physical trauma or experience in your lifetime. Because of this, I think that the three most essential traits to survival are perseverance, intelligence, and organization.

The righteous feats that we humans will go to survive is incredible, we will go to extreme measures to ensure the survival of our lives. As humans we have the instinct that differentiates us from all other species, the survival instinct plays a key factor in many life threatening situations. This factor makes us act different and make life or death choices in a matter of seconds. The human survival instinct is our single greatest single source for inspiration.

What survival means to me is to remain alive, to not die. The basic skills of survival are trying to find water, hunting for food, and shelter.

If this question is asked to most people you will get a wide array of answers. Every person believes that his or her needs are different to survive. But many will confuse their needs for wants as to what it truly takes to survive off of. Some people survive off of very meager means and others think they need more to survive. You could survive off of peanut butter and jelly and ramen noodles if you had to or even off of beans and rice. Many people who are homeless or poverty stricken find ways to make it. Our interpretation of survival is really what come into play, to some survival is just the basic necessities of life to others it is the excess things in our life that we have become accustomed to make life easier.

A survival situation is any kind of events (usually short term, about 72 hours or less, though some can go much longer) that required you to take action to save your life or other’s life. The main goal here is not only just survival but to return home, either through rescue and search team or your own navigational ability.