The Goal of life for all creatures

When considering all creatures and organisms, the question of the goal of life becomes one that makes is even more difficult to answer. Contemplating the idea and the many types of organisms that have life, the theory of the goal of life that I proposed before is not enough to satisfy the question.

I guess one must think of what every organism does throughout it's life cycle. Fungi for example grow from bacteria and waste. Although many people consider fungi as gross, an organism related to death and decomposition, a parasite, many fungi actually help their hosts. There is a fungi in the amazon that grows at the foot of trees that somehow helps it's roots take in and process water. I forget actually how it happens. I saw it on an episode of "Planet Earth" on the Discovery Channel. The episode also detailed another fungi that develops inside many insects. It begins by the spores either being inhaled or ingested by the insect, making the insect ill and act frantic, and eventually dies. The fungus consumes the insect from the inside out. But it is also described as a type of pest control. The fungi keep the insect population at a natural balance. Viruses could be described to do the same.

Only recently, and by recently I consider the age of the planet, our planet has had a problem of overpopulation. We as humans have endured a few plagues in the past centuries. Those could be considered a type of human population control. Thinking about the frequency of those events, it seems we are about due for another. Could AIDS be considered as a plague? Could it be a naturally evolved type of human population control? Or is it what many Christians believe, a punishment from God. That just brings about many, many other questions and now I am steering away from the topic of from which I began. Or does it all come together to help answer the question? what is the goal of life. So far,with just what I have written, one answer could be to simply live and survive.