Why should we consider survival as an art?

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Hello friends and followers of my philosophy blog, this time I want to reflect on why the way in which the human being can adapt to any environment is considered an art.

I respect the opinion of those who consider that the simple fact of continuing to live is not considered an art, since it is normal to think that way when compared to other forms of art such as painting or music. However, if we go deeper into our reflective capacities, we will realize that the question is not an art:

Is the simple fact of continuing to live an art?

It has a great stimulus for each of us to see this question as a true philosophical provocation.

Although the human being throughout his history has had to reinvent and adapt to different environments, it is nowadays where a constant adaptation is a great challenge. Like other artists, man today has to adapt to technological advances, but above all, he has to be able to adapt to new forms of survival that are very different from those of the past.

One way to survive today can become through a rebellious character, contradicting the paradigms of what is considered normal, perhaps because of the disinformation to which we humans are constantly subjected, where we are made to believe lies as truth, it is necessary that we can doubt everything, and have to do what we are not expected to do, that way perhaps we can overcome adversity and continue to live as the great artists of modern survival.

In conclusion, I can say that the question of whether survival is an art, rather than having to give a concise answer, what it does is to invite us to reflect on how subjective art can be considered as a consequence of the nature of creativity, since the meaning that life can have for us humans only has value in the way we manage to survive constantly.