We were never meant for "do or die"

I believe that we are made a certain way, and we on our lives either developing that way or denying it. That we are made of a specific nature and it's ours. It's what makes us who we are. Like we can have all these same parts to us but the result is different in each of us.

The way. I hear that in some circles I go around, and I've not stopped wondering: What is my way? We hear that story about the frog and the crocodile. How after the frog asks, the crocodile carries the frog across the river, but in the end, eats it because that is just his way. Why is it so much simpler for animals? They only have one instinct, and that's to survive. We can go on and on about how "civilized" we are, but we're no different. We are just as much animals as they are. What makes us different than them? That we think? That we have opposable thumbs?
I mean, do we do the things we do, because we want to survive, or because we want to make sure that we'll always come out on top of the chain? This whole ridiculous idea of being the alpha species. Are we really? Or have we been manipulated to think that we are?

The past few days I have talked to some friends, about how there are just some people who let other people believe that they're not smarter than they actually are. They do this because these other people like to believe that they're the smarter ones. And it made me wonder, who else does that? Who lets someone else believe that they're the smarter one, that they're the more developed human being? Because they know they may not be as smart, intelligence-wise, but they are smarter in other ways.
But really, who actually decides what kind of smarts matters more? And why does it matter more?

... And I've digressed so far from the point of this post, lol. I meant to talk about the way, and my way. All these things about ways and how everything is just innate and instinctual, to the things we do. But ironically, I lost my train of thought on that.

Next time.