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reasons

It is quite certain that a cat once chased to a corner will fight back. It is certain that once wolves have decided on their territory will fight till the end to maintain it. So do the lions.

The food required for animals to live is not sufficient even though the land is so broad and plentiful. The bacteria once allowed to replicate will freely do so until the limitation has been reached. Aerobic bacteria dominate the places where they get oxygen as they can produce more ATP, and anaerobic bacteria replicate in places where the soil has no access to the air.

Therefore we see one of the smallest living beings compete with each other for food using energy as a way to assert dominance.

How different are we from these living things? Humans also use oil, gas, dynamite, and nuclear energy to compete and maintain strategic ground. Aeroplanes, tanks, guns and explosives, are used in different ways to destroy and defend valuable outposts and strategic areas.

Energy is a valuable component of life and causes the survival of species once it is there. As important as it is for oil and steel for tanks and aeroplanes, food was both as important as the building blocks for the living things as well as the components for cells to work. Cells working would mean that the whole living thing would work.

Living things needed food to work and grow just as cells need protein to grow and replicate. The variety of cells in living things supplied by blood in animals would get the essential nutrients and chemicals necessary for the cells.

Food was, is and will always be the living requirement of the human body. All human beings need it to work, for their survival. Living things get their food from different sources and if it is the same source, then there is a likelihood of competition.

And that competition was being seen by those living things who are alive to witness it. Energy whether it is oil or natural gas, rare earth metals or steel, people's need to obtain it seemed to be prevalent and the dominating factor. And this we in history see repeated war and thus ask ourselves whether it is part of nature or part of an artificial force that governs us.

And we clearly and vaguely see an inevitable end. An end that all of us must die. And that can't be prevented despite all our options. That we move towards that like our nerve cells and skin cells, the cells which eventually die.

When the telomeres shorten so does the lifespan of our cells. Cancer cells with the help of an enzyme allow the telomeres to grow and hence telomeres always exist in them. But with lack of nutrition after the death of an individual, even the cancer cells cease to exist.

Basic units of life also have a limitation too. Death and birth are a continuous cycle.

And we see these different homo sapiens that are seemingly invincible come down to their knees. And these homo sapiens that are us have to fall into nature's pattern.

And we realise that our advances bring new limitations, answers bring new questions and achievements bring new room for growth.

But I emphasize here again even those basic units of life which are considerably immortal have to die once a source of food is not there.

The President of Lyson had a seemly stressful childhood. He didn't feel stressed because he was hungry. But he had another reason for stress. It was the fact he was high born and all the people in Lyson, those closest to him would assure him that he would do great things.

He had suffered difficulties. Everyone thought he was a straight A student. But sometimes he would fall short of these expectations. He would lose himself. Frustration would take over.

But someone believed in him despite the difficult circumstances. Blooming confidence took place when he was being assured of his inner ability and potential. And the potential would be manifested as he invested in reinventing himself.

Soon he would have all the characteristics of a leader, preserving the things that ought to be changed and also being a catalyst for change. He brought about many policies that benefit the locals and he came to supreme power.

Exposure to the difficulties allowed him to cope with even more difficult circumstances. Increasing challenges with increasing difficulties. He managed to turn an economic recession into economic prosperity. And when workers were doubtful, he gave them hope. Unemployment reached an all-time low. Many buildings that had been ignored got refurbished and livable again.

Foreign policy was highly applauded too.

But there was one problem. Neighbours like Silva had vested interests and soon would get together to achieve their goals.

War seemed inevitable. The President entered the temple, the one Demark had visited once. He talked to the Priest.

"Hello, brother," the President said.

The priest looked at the President. And his eyes were blue.

Then he smiled and turned his eyes red. The same thing that might have scared Demark amused the President.

"Hello, older brother." The Priest replied.

"I have come to pay respect to nature. I need the strength I get from prayer." The President said directly and without deviation.

"Of course, it is by the mercy of nature which governs our survival." The priest said.

The president had a deep relationship with the temple. It was in difficult moments, that he would turn to the temple. Whether it was when he was facing an exam or test, or he was in unfavourable circumstances, the temple and his prayer to nature gave him the power and energy to cope.

After an hour of prayer, he found his brother, "the Priest" was still there as if waiting for him to wake up.

The Priest was the younger brother of the President. While the older brother had the support of his parents for a long time, the younger brother wasn't so lucky.

The parents died in a car accident and thus it was up to the president to take care of his younger brother when he was little.

And the President never let his brother's expectations down. His younger brother would often get sick and there were days when the President would sleep in the seat hospital, sometimes even when he was feeling unwell himself. The younger brother would think this was the act of love that he remembered throughout his life.

All of those memories were recalled in the hour that the President prayed.