Protectors and providers
If you have a good relationship with your parents; and I assume that most of you do, it is important to remember that without them, you wouldn’t exist. Think about what they have sacrificed, what possible dreams and hopes they might have given up for your life.
When you think of a woman taking care of her child, it is amazing what kind of strong, protective instincts a mother develops. A mother carries life for multiple months and does everything in her power to protect it. It simply is in her nature. Nurturing it, caring for the child, making the embryonic organism feel safe until it is ready to enter what we know as life. What was previously mentioned can be observed in most, if not all species, including humans. These maternal instincts are statically encoded in female specimens of the human race, if no genetic defect occurred in the mother herself and persist until the end of the mother’s existence.
Let us not forget that the male counterpart also plays a significant role in the process of parenthood. While the father certainly has no ability to develop so called maternal instincts, he still takes on the role of a protector. Yet in a different way. In that context, the task of a father is mostly to protect his own flesh and blood from real, physical threats, i.e. enemies usually defined by a natural pecking order, also known as food chain and environmental dangers such as harsh weather conditions or even natural catastrophes by any means possible. Aside from that, human fathers as well as fathers in nonhuman form are, naturally seen, providers. What in modern society is mostly maintaining a job so you can feed your family, is really not that different from this specific practice in times of precivilisation. Instead of ‘having a job’ and maintaining it, your ‘job’ back then was very likely to build primitive weapons, hunting tools, fishing rods etc. out of resources freely available in nature such as wood, rock and metal, so that you could go out into the wild and hunt, fish, or, in the absence of animals, forage the fields, forests and other natural habitats for berries, mushrooms, edible plants and so forth.
Combine all of this and you get a natural dynamic making possible the circle of life.
Last update: 22 March 2021