Panic buying

Human beings have a natural instinct to survive. People pressed under extreme harsh circumstances would come out swinging.

Think about those who migrate to places for a better life. They live their culture, people, friends, relatives, their food even parents, children and spouses to earn a better way of living. Thus the survival instinct rambler is talking about.

It is shocking to hear of the Africans that risk their lives sailing across the dangerous waters of the Mediterranean in insecure boats in search of a better life in Europe. Similar dangers are also on the poor that brave dangerous journeys to the US and other parts of the world.

We may rush and judge those that live their countries and illegally live in our country (rambler stays and visits countries legally and encourages that) but wait a minute.

Most human beings can easily be reduced to a savage people when faced with harsh situations of life. I dare say that circumstances have the potential to reduce even you to that.

On the other hand most behave as if they are civilised when they have the securities of life such as food, accommodation, clothes and holidays! Everything may change if such comforts are removed from them. The animal in them resurface and once again the human race shows its similarities.

Pause a minute and think about how we react when we face little pressures of life ourselves. What about hoarding fuel and filling up our cars when there is just a few days strike in a small part of our fuel sector. Even our poor students and those on benefits manage to get money for hoarding fuel in their cars even when authorities assure us 24 hours that with normal consumption we all have enough to last the strike period.

The despair and the panic buying of fuel underscores the fact that people are the same. They have the natural fighting spirit to survive. The rationale is to enjoy a better life. To enjoy the comforts of life!

Religiously we can quickly conclude that corruption has its roots in sin. Rambler would also ask why corruption is rife in poor countries. Would you not agree with rambler that apart from greed, people can do anything to enjoy a better quality of life?

Where people cannot afford life insurance, no reliable source of income (if not income itself) and very unstable source of income and surely face definite poverty in retirement, corruption flourishes just because they have a natural instinct within them to survive (of course this is evil and rambler unreservedly denounces corruption).

Rambler will not touch in detail those people who colonise, enslave, attack and invade other nations for the better of their people. Suffice it to say that human beings are the same. Sinful.

In conclusion I would say again don’t rush and judge others. You can also be barbaric (who knows may be you are or have already been a savage!). What should you do then? Proactively remember the poor, oppose evil and stand for justice at all the times for these would help us to live in a better world.

Rambler salutes those that maintain their integrity in all economic weather conditions. This is ideally how it should be.