Journal 29 – Survival (A Long Way Gone)

These boys learn to stick together. They steal food, they learn to persuade people to show their innocence and they had to avoid soldiers as much as they can. They had to learn to survive by not eating food for several days and gain physical skills they never thought they could retain. They had no choices and they even had to avoid the towns so that people don't think that they are child soldiers coming to kill the civilians. I have seen a lot of things people do to survive. People lie, steal or even kill to survive. This could be seen in the assassination of U Ko Ni. This is because the person who killed needed to survive, he took orders from someone, having a gun and all, and killed U Ko Ni. This is expected to human beings, going to several extents to achieve what they want. I am surprised that people could do many things to survive even in the extent of killing themselves. This is very ironic but this can happen many times such as soldiers and so on. For me, I could lie for me to survive. I could or would steal if the situation was sticky. I would not kill easily unless I'm in a situation such as a serial killer coming into my room and I have a gun with me or so on.