18 Feb 2008 04:53:04 | Mayank Jhanji
Struggle is not just another word but inherits within itself
many conceptions, helplessness and reflection of our modern
society that relies on this word to escape itself from life’s
realities.
Struggle, in our society, is tagged with those unfortunate ones
who are not able to meet expectations in eyes of other people.
Struggle, as the word is powerful enough to put down motivation
burner of many who are striving hard to achieve something and
Struggle, is no less than social venom, which slowly creeps into
our mind once we find road to the goal a bit difficult.
But questions arises is that are we justified for using this
word so often in today’s competitive world where almost all of
us are strugglers in one aspect or other?? Some of us are
struggling in meeting our professional goals, many of us are
struggling to manage our personal life and several among us do
not know where to start even!!!
Sadly, though, we have no one but ourselves to blame for that
because we have made ourselves so accustomed to this word and
use it at every single available opportunity. Let’s take an
example when we see one of our friends struggling to find a job,
we do not think a moment before uttering these words “Oh God!!
Poor Fellow is struggling to meet his ends”.
Rather than using such depressing words, how about saying “ Hey
Dude!! This is god’s way to test your inner strength. Keep
trying … I know you will get an excellent platform soon to
showcase your talent.” These encouraging words can indeed give
your struggling friend a new confidence and strength to walk
during this testing phase.
Sometimes we forget the basic fundamentals of life and faith in
the almighty. Nothing is permanent in life and struggle is just
a small parcel that life offers to us to give us inner strength
and remove weakness inside us. Don’t we take yak!! Tablets when
we are ill. Why??? Because these tablets give us the immunity to
fight against diseases. The very same way, life gives us the
“Struggle” tablets to remove weaknesses we inherit during good
times and to give us the new strength to face coming challenges
in our journey of life.
Today, we see more failures and personal defeats than what we
used to have in the past. The problem lies within us. We never
go soul searching to find out the reason behind the struggle.
The reason is our loneliness and we are usually left alone to
fight against all problems. And one thing is for sure “It’s not
easy!!!” May be that’s why a wise man has once said “ We can
lessen the burden of problems on us by sharing them.”
So how about sharing each other’s problems and help out each
other during Struggling times? The need of hour is to share
sense of responsibility and cross this god created obstacle
called “Struggle” together because Struggle becomes more
struggling when you need to fight alone on your own.
Once a wise man said “It is always easy to break a single wood
stick than a pile of wood sticks when bind together.” Today, if
we need to reunite our struggling world, we must unite and fight
all odds together.
Aren’t you tired of calling your real life story “Struggle of a
Struggler”? At least, I’m!!
Mayank
P.S: - Friends, please drop in your comments on this Article
because writing on Struggle was itself a struggling job. But
thanks to my friends, I managed to clip together some of the
points on such a struggling topic which is so vast that it needs
series of books to cover all the points.
About Author :
I'm a technical writer working with a software firm in India.
Writign articles is my past time as well as a part of my
professional career