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Originally Posted by Alvin  I
The person who is fully engaged in growth moves towards more life, more expansion, discovery. He is, like the Einstein quote, someone who's decided that 'the universes is a friendly place'. He's motivated by, well, Steve would call it love.
The person who is engaged in survival mode doesn't see the opportunities for growth. He's only doing all he can to keep all he has right now, nothing more, nothing less. He's decided that 'the universe is (not) a friendly place'. He's motivated by fear. |
Somebody in survival mode doesn't necessary see the universe is an unfriendly place. For whatever reason they are uncertain and nervous about the future and have a difficult time moving forward. But I think that the process of just surviving and keeping what you have, working through a hard time, can also be a process of growth. It's not just the proactive life-affirming positive-thinking go-getters who are doing the growing. Growth can be difficult and uncertain as well. (Which you'll know if you've ever lived through adolescence. Ahem.
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How can you be moving forward and backward at the same thing? You can't. You'd be constricted. Like when two people pull you in opposite directions, you just don't move anywhere.
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But you may be moving backward temporarily for the end goal of moving forward.
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Be in growth or survival. Decide whether you're going to expand or contract. Like Einstein once said
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You seem to see survival as going "backwards" or contracting. I see it as being a little lost or doing some exploring (but not quite knowing what for.) Seen the second way, it's definitely completely compatible with the "growth" mode of living.