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There are situations when characters are in a dangerous situation and steps must be taken to survive, whether it is keeping safe from natural dangers, or escaping from the consequences of the follies of their civilization. However, this can be taken too far when the result is the characters constantly living in fear or complacency without end, such as hiding from the world even when the situation has changed or there are responsibilities to recognize. This Aesop comes when at least one character begins to realize that all their community's focus on survival is producing a life that means nothing beyond giving into their fears or sloth. Instead, the characters realize that they have to have more in their lives, something to live or work for. This puts them in conflict with the others who refuse to change and demand the dissenters fall back in line and re-enter their shell. This will climax with the heroes saying something like "No, I'm tired of surviving where the only thing waiting for us is death, I want something to live for!" In the end, the heroes manage to convince the whole community to leave their stifling fear and enter the world with all its risks and work for something constructive and meaningful. As a result, everyone finds that they are happier and up to the challenge. As a Double Aesop, it often overlaps with Green Aesop, but instead of promoting being In Harmony with Nature or Capitalism Is Bad, this trope allows a balance of concepts like survival of the fittest and Nature Is Not Nice to promote that living above your natural impulses and instincts to protect the environment or live an honest life is superior to merely being part of the food chain. This stems back to how humans are called Homo sapiens for good reason: every creature on the world, including humans, have the instinct to survive, but only humans (other sapient species in speculative fiction notwithstanding) can think beyond survival — that is, comfort, wealth, expression, and many more. In the Pyramid of Needs by Abraham Maslow, this trope is fulfilling everything above level 2. This, in a way, is the opposite of Ambition Is Evil: that is when trying to improve your lot in life is a bad thing, probably leaving you Lonely at the Top. This trope is when having no ambition beyond not dying early is a bad thing. See also We Have Become Complacent and Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life. Compare Social Darwinists, who make "survival of the fittest" their credo. Contrast Nothing Left to Do but Die. A Motivational Lie may be used to instill this in someone. As an inversion, Beware the Living or anybody who follows this creed but is Too Dumb to Live. |
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A recurrent point in Slow West. "There is more to life than survival. Jay Cavendish taught me that. I owe him my life. Ho for the west." | |
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The finale of The Ghost and Molly McGee has this moral as Scratch finds out that he isn’t really a ghost, he’s the wraith of a gloomy man named Todd Mortenson and that he spent his whole life being fearful of death that he never experienced life with an old friend of his, Adria. With some encouragement from Molly, he returns to his body and begins living life. | |
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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. Papagallo offers this to Max while trying to persuade him to stay and help the settlement. He can take his vehicle and leave but would end up little different from the Marauders besieging them. Or he can stay and join a community and build a future for himself. Tragically Max is so burnt out from losing his family he refuses to take up the offer even after circumstances force him to help out anyway. | |
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Discussed in The Penumbra Podcast: | |
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An episode of Gargoyles examined this trope. | |
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King of the Hill: "Hank's Unmentionable Problem" has Hank develop severe constipation from his meat-heavy diet. Peggy helps him get into a healthier lifestyle in hopes of curing him, but ultimately sees that he has had to give up just about everything he enjoys in the process. She resolves to let Hank go back to enjoying life on his own terms, even if it leaves him with a somewhat shorter lifespan. |
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Knights of the Old Republic Cinematic Universe: Zayne Carrick and Jarael have gone to hiding on Nar Shaddaa from the Sith that have been hunting down the Jedi all over the galaxy. They initially attempt to not get involved in Meetra Surik's business in Episode VI: Knights and the Darkness Pt. I, but Zayne eventually decides his conscience can't stand living in the shadows so he can survive while he can use his gifts to do good. After a talk with Jarael about if their current life is life at all, they both come out of hiding and assist Surik. | |
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Jesus of Montreal. When the lead character is confronted by a priest who wants to kill their iconoclastic play to be on the safe side, he responds, "There is more to life than waiting for death!" | |
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One of Solomon Northrup's most memorable lines in the film version of 12 Years a Slave: | |
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John Preston of Equilibrium is asked why he is alive; he answers the questioner, a sense-offender named Mary, that he lives to serve Libria. She isn't impressed. | |
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One of the themes of Love And Monsters. Staying in the underground bunkers is safe(ish), but it's worth taking the risk of trying to live on the surface. "Don't settle. You don't have to. Not even at the end of the world." | |
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One of the selling points of 20 Years After which was directly stated in the trailer "There is a difference, between surviving and living.". | |
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WALL•E. Captain McCrea sums up the fight against AUTO, the ship's computer who has been effectively keeping the humans prisoner aboard the Axiom, because an old and obsolete directive bids him to stay in space where survival is easier, with "I don't want to survive, I want to live!" As it turns out, the humans, and even the robots on board, are thoroughly sick of the pampered yet utterly meaningless existence they live. | |
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Discussed in Les Misérables among members of La Résistance. | |
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Interstellar: Humanity, while still alive and with at least some luxuries left (baseball games, for example) is so focused on keeping what little has left in the Crapsack World that Earth has become after years of climate change and war that only the protagonists actually recognize this trope. | |
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The Lion King 1 ½: The film's entire first act is Timon leaving the meerkat colony because "All we do is dig so we can hide, and hide so we can dig!" | |
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Astra's Garden: Vinegar suffers from Undeath and needs to take medicine to prolong her life, but the side effects of the medicine make her feel extremely sick, leaving her wondering if her life is even worth living anymore if she is just going to be helpless and in pain the whole time. Indeed, this is the exact reason why Astra's brother Cassava eventually stopped taking his medicine back when he was suffering from Undeath. | |
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All Hail King Julien has the previous King's rule defined by forcing everyone to stay absolutely quiet and hidden all the time. Our King Julien XIII objects to this and makes it his goal to change things as soon as he gets his chance at the crown. | |
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Braveheart. When asked why he risks death to fight for Scottish independence, William Wallace answers "Every man dies. Not every man really lives." | |
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Padak: Padak spends the whole film trying to convince the rest of the fish to try and escape their predictaments, and that the Master Flatfish's advice is not letting them live what could be a free life in the Ocean, only one fish, Spotty, supports this idea. By the end, the Master himself realizes Padak was right, after she dies and motivates him to move on, and successfully escapes. | |
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The Croods has Eep confront her father Grug and his obsession with merely surviving in fear, "That wasn't living! That was just.... not dying! There's a difference." | |
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In the beginning of Ratatouille, Remy explains his admiration for humans by saying that they don't simply exist. They create amazing things, like the food Gusteau cooks. | |
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The Wicked + The Divine: Inanna's personal philosophy is a variation on this. As he and the others of the pantheon have only two years at the most to live after their emergence as gods, he's decided that rather than regret the life he won't have or fear dying, he'll take the opportunity to embrace the confidence godhood has granted him and live the remainder of his life to the fullest. He chides Baphomet for trying to kill him to steal his remaining years of life by pointing out that living for a little bit longer won't mean anything if he spends his borrowed time terrified and desperate. | |
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In the final part of the "Weirdmageddon" finale of Gravity Falls, Mabel, Dipper, Soos and Wendy discovers that Grunkle Stan and a handful of other characters have survived by hiding in the magically shielded Mystery Shack. Grunkle Stan refuses to mount an offense against Bill Cipher, saying that they have a good deal just eking out a marginal existence in the Shack and can turn to cannibalism once their food supplies run out. Dipper and Mabel manage to talk the others into fighting back. | |
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