Living or Surviving ???

The other day i had been to Girgaum Chowpatty Beach with one of my friends, and i had been to this place after long gap of time (i can say after almost a decade). When i was a kid, i used to spend each of my sunday evenings there playing with the sand or sometimes cricket or sometimes a ride on a horse etc.. It just made me nostalgic to see that place and seeing small children play the same way i used to..
While i was talking to my friend about my childhood, i realised i could no longer do all that what i used to do, simply because i have grown up. I know that the reason i say sounds a bit funny or wierd but its true. I mean, what things that we did in our childhood can also be done by us today without any hesitation. The moment we think of doing something similar, the second thought is that "Its Childish to do that" !!! We think we have grown up for the better of ourselves, but is it really so?
In our process to grow up, we have lost our innocence, we have lost our honesty, we have lost that cute smile on our faces that brought joy to our homes. But what on the other hand, we have learned how to survive in this world, yeah we have just learned or are just learning to survive but we are not learning the important lesson of How to Live. To Live is to to be happy and share happiness (do we do the later part?), To live is to think how a particular thing will benifit all of us and not me alone (how far do we think this way?)
( Charles Darwin, when invented the theory "Survival of the fittest" did not intend to use it with respect to intra-human species, but i guess we humans have taken in too personally to apply it amongst ourselves and in process we are just deteriorating ourselves. )
Coming back to the ground reality, it is not any one of us to be blamed for what we are today because what ever we are, its because of the need of the situations, its becasue that our motive of Life is changing, the smile on our family's faces which came every morning when we woke up, now comes on their face every month end when we get our salaries or (not to sound harsh), it comes now when we do something big or achieve some thing big, without knowing how did we do this? (I mean who in this world now cares about the reasons of the success, we just see and realise what matters to us and thats the end-result thts it).
What i am trying to say is that we cannot change how others live but if at some point in time if we realize that we are not living but just surviving and if we also realize that living is better than surviving then we should start to practice it right away and that can be done simply by sharing 30 paise when you have 1 rupee. We are still Humans and we can still make this world a better to Live in !!!