Center of Attention

If we look around our self there is a link or bond between living organisms. From tiny  insect to a advance human, there are somehow relations between them. It may seem senseless but
if we take a close look to know how relation develops we found answer outstanding. Let us take  example of Adam, first man on earth living normally but after few days He feels himself alone.  Eve was sent as a companion of Him. They both began to live happily and enjoy pleasures of life  together. The connection between both individuals made a strong relationship like they care for  each other and showed their affection and attention.

This shows a relation or inter-dependence  of two individuals is necessary even from early life, in other words from birth.
When a child is born he is center of attention of his parents. They look after him and do everything for his better growth. An infant is totally dependent on his parents and the relation between them is of deep love and care. It states that how a man being individual interdependence on other fellow beings. There are three phases of life childhood, youth and old age. In all these phases man needs support, care, affection and attention. These qualities are necessary for entire life and one cannot get it by his or her-self alone but only way to come with all these to make a sound relation with others. Presence of fellow man makes you feel comfortable and internally satisfying to make one realize that how they are important to us. This importance and realization is somehow developed by mutual affairs. According to me, being individual cannot survive for a long time without making interaction with society. My family is very important to me and every person of my family makes me strong by moral support.

My parents and sibling are everything to me because they are more than a family and more than friends. I learn from them a lot, their experiences and practical life values makes me to choose better in life. My success and career is based on interdependence of my family and without them I’ve never be able to seek knowledge.

When we meet people, make some gossip or exchange ideas, visions of life, experiences, practical values and so many other things. If we notice these matters in such a way that we are giving and taking those values to make our self well define in moral character, this is matter of inter-dependence. In this universe everything depends on each other. Like food famers plough fields and wait for ripening of crops, after this struggle we eat those crops.

Honey bees made honey from pollen which are part of flower and grown by gardeners or natural source. We take honey from bees for our nutrition fulfillment. But now a day we are more self conscious. We become selfish in some matter like property, politics etc. We harm and hurt other fellow beings for our means. Like nuclear or atomic blast, innocent people lost their live and become a puppet in politician’s hand. Politics is a dirty game and they do not get their benefits by playing such games. Selfishness always leads to snag.

Lewis Thomas an American physician, researcher and etymologist found how two different creatures make a symbiotic relationship. In The Medusa and the Snail he describes an experimental value of symbiotic relation of two organisms having dissimilarity in their characteristics and functions inhabiting in same habitat. He says in nature there are some organisms having specific qualities and some are same. Word ‘unique’ for every second creature has become so common now, that we are astonished by their behavior in nature with other organisms. Some are genetically modified and some are modified by gene exchange.

He gives example of Coral polyps known as biological self conscious, they do not accept other polyp of different genetic line but accept only of same line. Even a micro-organism is distinguished by its movement of flagella. This observation for Lewis is a discussion of notion about ‘self’ and ‘other’ by chemical recognition between discrete organisms. Medusa and Snail living in symbiotic relation and inter-dependence on each other they are also giving and taking beneficial properties for their survival, protection and nutrition. Medusa engulfs Snail in such a way that it becomes predator and snail as a prey. This predator prey relation in symbiotic habitat provides both food, growth but also showing their characteristics of individuality in each other.

When tiny snail grows mature and leaves body of jelly fish as a vestigial parasite, there is nothing left or harm to jelly fish. Now Medusa is successfully edited parasite. Lewis says how these creatures do not harm and take benefit from each other. This symbiotic relation is better than parasitism in which host is harmed.
If we conclude all these hence its proof that symbiotic and inter-dependence relation is essential part of life. There is no survival of individuality without such relations.   

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