In today's world you have to be pretty swift on your feet to be able to survive. Many times you take a lot of turns and twists just hoping that you won't fall down and not be able to get back up.
Life is in general a very good learning experience.
Survival goes to those that experience and learn from those experiences. For some survival is just existing day to day, for others survival is an accumulation of experiences that make sure they can anticipate and weather anything that happens. Wouldn't it be nice if everyone had such knowledge about life. We're never to old to learn. When there is no apparent resolution, and a refusal to compromise there is an impasse.