The forest does not care if you live or die. Blood on the leaves, bones in the soil, and still the wind moves on. No prayers. No fairness. Just hunger, fear, and the desperate will to last one more day. We call it cruel because we want comfort.
Predators do not apologize when they strike; prey does not bargain when it runs. A heartbeat too slow, a step too loud, and a life is erased without ceremony. The world keeps turning. Sunlight still filters through the branches, indifferent to the struggle happening beneath it. What we name “brutal” is, to nature, simply the cost of existing.
There is a strange, haunting honesty in that. No lies, no promises, no illusions of fairness.
Only the unspoken law that everything must fight to remain. We may hide in cities and soften our surroundings, but the same rule lives quietly inside us: adapt, endure, or be replaced. Nature is not our enemy, nor our guardian. It is the mirror that shows us what life looks like when all excuses are stripped away, and only the raw will to survive remains.