A reflection dedicated to Susan Edwards's passing

It is life itself that cries out to live.

Nothing more can be added to that truth.

It is not you or I that wants to live

But rather life within us that cries out,

That seeks its own perpetuation reflexively.

Life is a force

It is a fifth force in nature

Just as there are gravitational, electro-magnetic, weak and strong nuclear forces,

There is life.

Everything that surrounds life is the result of its force:

Physical strength, intelligence, logic,  all manner of adaptation and all the creations of mankind are extensions of the force of life , the result of the exertion of that force.   

The evolution of life's creatures is the force of life moving in opposition to entropy.

Death is the single catalyst of growth for the cause of death is entropy and it is the fabric of the grade of the hill. 

We are pushing life up that hill

When one of us drops another takes his of her place.

It is the hill of evolution and at the top is a transformation to a state that is presently not conceivable.  It is a jump to a next state, just as pre-linguistic beings moved to a state of linguistic being, so there will be a next state in the evolutionary hierarchy as unavailable to our imaginations  today as the transistor was to Lucy.