you won't get a simple answer, but i don't think that's what you're looking for.
lif is like a box of... wait, scratch that.
it's like a circle of life... um, that's no good either.

i don't think life is SUPPOSED to be anything other than the natural order perpetuating itself in a cycle of birth and death and hunger and plenty and predator and prey.

nature is a simple, efficient thing. it's when man gets involved trying to figure it out that things get all cock-eyed.