Blindness

I had just finished reading this book by Jose Saramago titled Blindness. Now this isn't a book review; the story just makes me wonder: What if one day everyone suddenly goes blind or something really catastrophic happens that saps us of our ability to live like normal people with no disabilities? It's an end of the world scenario but like in the book, you learn that human beings can get used to anything.

So people can get by with little to no food, hardly any water, living in filth and without all the comforts of modern life that we know of and take for granted. Imagine losing everything, your loved ones lost, your home is no longer your home, your body violated and everything you own is taken away from you. And yet, people can still go on.

Nothing is absolute, and nothing belongs totally to any one person. And in any moment, everything can just disappear. So how do you live with that without losing it and jumping off a building?

What is the one thing that can keep a person going, breathing, living? Is it in our innate nature to continue surviving no matter what, that hypothetically when we're in danger or threatened to a point where we'll leave behind all that we held dear to us and just save ourselves?

If one day things are to go ape shit, no more civilization, what would you do to survive? How far are you willing to go?