Surviving the Fittest

~ Gottfried

I don’t like that my chances of survival seem to be linked to the common sense of others. Nursing is not a career—it’s a post apocalyptic survival skill. If you can’t administer CPR at this age, of what good are you to society?

The fact that there’s a highway to hell and only a stairway to heaven says a lot about the anticipated traffic numbers. No man goes before his time—unless the boss leaves early. Coffee is vital for survival. Dinosaurs didn’t have coffee and look how that turned out.

Humor can be one of your best survival tools. It’s too bad the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs and cutting hair. Those in charge are clearly out of their depth. Nobody knows the country better than the street urchin.

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. Work on your appetite for risk, it is the indicator of your survival chances. It is not the strongest of the species that survive, but the ones responsive to change. Think cockroaches.

Extinction is the rule, survival is the exception. Survival can be summed up in three words, never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Keep trying. Sometimes I wonder if all of this is happening because I didn’t forward that email to ten people.

Yes I walked away mid-conversation. You were boring me to death and my survival skills kicked in. Laughter is not the best medicine, vitamin C is. A lie told a thousand times is still a lie. Take your vitamins and stay hydrated.

It’s funny how the world works, how we win and lose, how we never really know what’s ahead but we never stop planning. How we survive and move on. There’s a sadness that comes with survival, but also more joy to be had. To live is to suffer.

To suffer is to find meaning in suffering.

©️ Gottfried. All rights reserved

76 thoughts on “Surviving the Fittest”

  4. SMiLes Mr. Gottfried As ‘They’ Say
    And As my Sister Says i Sound
    Like Josh Groban When i Sing

    Although my Wife Says It’s
    Just Too G Dammed Loud

    Who Needs Chapped GPT
    Or Whatever It is When We Have
    Andy William’s Song and Josh

    Groban’s Voice Yes At the Very

    Finger Tips of Our YouTube Hehe

    Indeed These Are The Best Survivor

    Days Ever No Matter How Many Instances

    The Batchelor Show Goes Sour Or the

    Last Naked Enough Whole Complete

    Human on the Island Who Has Not

    Yet Got Kicked Off And Left Behind
    As i’ve Heard That Related That Way

    So Yes i’LL Join in on the Refrain and

    God Yes The Rest of the Lyrics and Shake

    The Foundation, Walls, and Ceilings Yes
    of Whatever Church or Other Temple

    i Visit As God DAmmiT i Survived

    And i Am Alive i Did Dream the

    Impossible Dream And Now NewLY

    Meek Do Inherit the EartH Me Hehe

    “To dream ‘the impossible dream’
    To fight the unbeatable foe
    To bear with unbearable sorrow
    And to run where the brave dare not go

    To right the unrightable wrong

    And to love pure and chaste from afar
    To try when your arms are too weary

    To reach the unreachable star

    This is my quest
    To follow that star
    No matter how hopeless

    No matter how far

    To fight for the right
    Without question or pause
    To be willing to march, march

    into Hell For that heavenly cause

    And I know if I’ll only be true
    To this glorious quest
    That my heart will lie

    peaceful and calm

    When I’m laid to my rest

    And the world will be better for this
    That one man, scorned and covered

    with scars

    Still strove with his last ounce of courage
    To reach the unreachable the unreachable

    the unreachable star

    And I always dream the impossible dream

    Yes, I’ll reach the unreachable star”

    Was Gonna Do the “Little Drummer Boy” Song

    Haha Yet It Wasn’t in SeaSoN i Still Am For Real..:)

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      1. Hehe Yeah i Got the Facebook Algorithm All Chapped Up

        By The Focus, Attention Span, Flow, And General Speed

        Of Using The Application Determining i Couldn’t

        Possibly Be Human At the Speed of FLoW iN
        Wu-Wei Ease Yes Like When Bruce Lee

        Spins Around
        MaKinG All

        Those Moves

        in Effortless Ease too

        Dear Lord Mr Gottfried

        So Yeah They Jailed my Trippy

        Twinkle Toe Star Lit-Up Fingers

        A Few Hours to Test the Waters
        of my Humanity OverFLoWinG

        Technology is my Slave i Refuse

        to Be It’s ‘Hand Maiden’ hehe

        THeRE iS ALWaYS A Human

        Work Around As i am

        No Longer the

        iRobot Alone

        i Used to Be As

        Just A Valuable Commodity

        As Federal Employee Waiting

        to Slip off the Golden Hand-Cuffs

        to Life of No More Money MaKinG at All

        Back to The Child EYeS of CReaTiViTY

        MaKinG Even Curious Georgette

        Blush With All mY

        Freedoms

        On Full Display

        With No Illusory Fears

        of Machine Mind Only Really
        Grasping A World of Prison Soul Before

        Indeed i Stand Upon A Pile of Robot Parts
        AS High As Gehenna is Still Low in These Parts Whole Now…

        There is no F in Way A.I. Will Ever Predict What i Will Do New Next
        Except For Eat Sleep Dance Sing Again Wherever i Am to Go Now..:)

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          1. Ah Yes ‘iRobot’ Timely CuLTuRaL Meme of Exploring and Fears Both in
            Terms of the ‘Will Smith Movie’ and ‘The Alan Parson’s Project’ ‘iRobot’ too

            And Let’s Not Forget ‘Chris Rock’ Champion of Turning the other Cheek hehe

            Not Sure if Alan Parson’s Project ‘iRobot’ Is Beyond Your Cultural Memory

            However Haunting the Music is to that Futuristic Dystopian

            Album Indeed

            The 3 Robotic Laws
            In ‘Asimov’ Ways:

            “First Law
            A robot may not injure a human being or, through
            inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

            Second Law
            A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings
            except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

            Third Law
            A robot must protect its own existence as long as such
            protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

            Zeroth Law
            A robot may not harm humanity, or, by
            inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.”

            SMiLes Dear Mr. Gottfried Considering in the United
            States one is 25 Times More Likely to Die of Gun Violence

            And Considering How Well Artificial Intelligence Works
            Hehe to Keep my Car in my Own Damn Lane Even
            Watching For Cars Behind me And Providing

            Emergency Braking And So Many Other
            Robotic Sensing SKiLLS Considering

            For Most Driving is Still A Most
            Dangerous Activity Any of Us
            May Do in Life Hurtling

            Two Ton Missiles
            Down the Road

            At High Speed Playing
            Dodge Ball With the Same

            Kind of Projectiles too i am not

            Currently too Worried About Artificial
            Intelligence the Problem is Not Enough

            Humans Have Become Human Enough
            to Follow Asimov’s Robotic Rules of Ethics

            Skipping Over 3 Rules to A Point Zero Sum
            Game of Do No Harm Most Respect A Worthy
            Ethical And Moral Aim for Survival Indeed With SMiLEs

            As i Love to Dance And Sing Almost Like A Robot on Repeat too Hehe
            LoVE iN Peace Giving Sharing Caring Healing With Most Respect
            Least Harm iN JoY oF LiGHT For ALL Moving Connecting Co-Creating

            HuMaNiTY ToGeTHeR Naked Enough Whole Complete

            iNHaLinG Peace EXHaLinG LoVE For All of Nature God

            Yes Best ThiS WaY

            True FRiEnDS With
            Gravity As Balance

            Is Nature’s Highest

            Law For Survival oF All With SMiLes

            i’ll See if i Can And Will Improve on This Record of Repeat…

            The More i Balance The Dance of Life The More The Song Flows

            LoVE iN Peace

            With
            SMiLes
            of Course..:)

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          3. “Where Would i Be
            Without Your Wisdom
            Guiding me” Hehe

            Mr. Gottfried Only
            Without my “Shtick”

            i Continue To Spread
            Around The Globe To

            Rise
            And
            Or
            Raise

            Beautiful
            Roses And
            THorns Such
            Is Life iN “The Garden”
            Naked Enough Whole

            Complete

            With SMiles 🦅

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          5. SMiles Mr Gottfried
            Oh How Wonderful
            It Will Be Now If Your
            Next Banter Republic
            Post Addresses Royalty

            iNHeRiTinG The
            Earth God Yes Surely
            i Will Provide Vibes

            For How The Meek
            iNHeRiT The

            All iN
            All BacK iN
            The HoMe oF
            GoD WiTHiN

            Naked Enough
            Whole Complete

            ALL
            iN
            ALL

            THe
            JiVE TheNoW🫠🏝

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  5. Survival itself is a survival skill, that’s why boring conversations should be avoided at all costs. Except of course the other party holds the keys to your survival (read thriving) 😂
    Thank goodness this wasn’t one of those boring ones, heck! i read till the end … Keep thriving👍

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