Man live to eat while animals eat to live

Do animal life is also filled with problems like that of human life?  Do animals also suffer from diseases, dissatisfaction, frustrations, agony, pain of past, fear of future, failure of hopes & expectation etc., like human being?  No doubt that every life will have some problems and life is not at all possible which is completely free from problems.   In general, the problems can be due to creative defects or error (by birth) or implicated/ caused by others while battling for survival or created by the ‘self’ knowingly or unknowingly. 

The issue is who suffers the worst, man or animals?  No doubt, spontaneously we can say that only man suffers the worst.  It is so ironic that man is so intelligent, man is suppose to be the best product of creation, man knows how to conquer and surpass every living being on earth, he has reached the space, even other planets that are farther away, gone deep inside the ocean and even has gone underneath the soil, but still he suffers the worst at his mind and heart, why?     

Answer to the above question is simple and will remain simple either we attempt to speak from biology or from philosophy or from intellectual point of view.   

The possible answer or may be the only answer is that man is the only animal who lives to eat and rest of all the animals except man eats to live or survive.  The need of man is never ending and it goes even after his death. 

It appears that all animals have defined or restricted their greed to the extent of their need but the man has allowed his greed to become his very need or way of life.  When you live for your need you can easily be happy as your needs can be easily met with or can be fulfilled/satisfied.  On the contrary, the greed has no boundaries, limitations and the ‘greed’ is as big as the space in which the very planet- earth itself is situated. 

In other words, man is always searching something in the empty space.  Not only is the space empty, what man voraciously searching is also emptiness.  One can find things only when they have a shape, size, colour or an odour or it can be experienced or felt.   

The human greed has no form, shape, size, colour or odour and nor it has any boundaries.  The genesis of man’s all sufferings are due to his limitless needs.  His needs constantly compel him to live for fulfilling them.

When our efforts are more towards fulfilling our greed only our effort remain and not the fulfillment per se.    So man continues to live an unfulfilled life, nourishing it by aspiring to fulfill it with his greed.     

The greed makes the man mad and compels him to secure everything and anything not only for himself but to his many generations also.  The irony is that both the rich and the poor has to leave the stage empty handed.  Nothing they could carry nor would follow them automatically when people die.   This is true for king & pauper, an achiever & looser and wise & unwise. 

This deep philosophy perhaps all animals might know and hence they show least attachment to anything however they live with absolute commitment in their life. 

Measured desire, limited needs, faith and confidence in self and its ecosystem, care and contribution to the nature is the theology of animals.   If man learns the importance of ‘eat to live’ than ‘live to eat’, a new order in the life of man will blossom where man can swim and float in the perennial river of happiness and bliss.