Struggles refine, shape and embellish life and
lead it to a level of perfection that is beyond
words to describe. Struggles bring us
invaluable experiences, enhance our vitality
and teach us how to live life with zest, zeal
and happiness. Holding hands with struggles
we not only move ahead, but we also learn
what is the true meaning of life and what is
true happiness. A life without struggle is a
life without its true joy and happiness. A stone
in constant contact with flowing waters of a
river slowly loses its rough edges and takes
such a beautiful shape that many a people begin
to regard it as a symbol for worship. Likewise
our lives also get refined in the heat of struggles,
and we rise and attain the desired goal.
Helen Keller, who was the first deafblind
woman to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree and
who was a great author and political activist,
has said, ‘Character cannot be developed in
ease and quiet. Only through experience of
trial and suffering can the soul be
strengthened, ambition inspired, and success
achieved’. Similar are the thoughts of the
famous actor John D. LeMay – “Struggle is the
key that opens all the closed doors of life and
provides new ways to keep progressing. The
inner strength and courage of a person does
not let a person lose and keeps furthering his
intentness for struggle.” The heat generated
due to struggle brightens up our lives.
Actually, nothing is easy in life. Whatever is
valuable and important cannot be obtained
easily. To reach one’s goal of life, everyone
has to make determined efforts. It is true that
if the basic needs of life of are not fulfilled, it
does become difficult to maintain the
willpower to fight. This is because there are
two fronts at which one needs to fight
simultaneously – one to provide for basic
needs and second to attain the goal of life.
However, even then if there is inner strength
and sufficient physical and mental power, a
person does not feel any problem in fighting
on these dual fronts. A positive outlook
towards life and intense desire to attain the
goal makes all this possible.
There is no shortcut to success. This is why,
despite the change of times, and change of
circumstances, whenever intense efforts are put
in to attain one’s goal, good results are obtained
sooner or later. History is replete with stories of
people who despite living in adverse
circumstances have earned great success. Even
today, the history is being rewritten that proves
that success does not depend on availability of
conveniences and luxuries, nor does it need heaps
of resources. Success can also come to people who
are poor, who fight bravely all adversities and
keep making progress with strong willpower and
devotion. The youth of the new generation are
proving again and again that it is possible to carve
one’s own identity despite all adversities.
In several competitive exams, many students
are seen doing well despite the fact that they
are from poor backgrounds and their lives are
engulfed in difficulties. In this tale of success
are also several sons and daughters who have
lived in slums, whose fathers are labourers or
rickshaw pullers and whose mothers have
worked as domestic helps in affluent homes. Their
whole families have fought together with their
difficulties and secured their futures. Each year
youth in our country prove that talent does not
blossom in luxuries and convenience, it blossoms
in struggles and difficulties. If this wasn’t so, then
talent would turn away from great men like
Kabir, Raidas and Dadu who were poor and head
towards rich and affluent of the society, but this
does not happen. Every year our young boys and
girls prove that the heat generated by struggles
does not dry up life source, it embellishes life.
Intentness to fight adversities does not let a
person to slow down till his goal is reached,
and does not ever let his hope subside; instead
it fuels enthusiasm and elation even further.
This is why even in the darkness of poverty
the illumined pathways of success are
emerging in our country. These stories tell us
that there is nothing great in attaining success
while living a life full of resources. In order
to understand the real meaning of life one
must also learn how to live a life with limited
means and yet attain success.
If a person does not face challenges then his
personality is not developed in totality. Success
gained without intense efforts is meaningless
and generates dissatisfaction. If we never get
disheartened while grappling with
circumstances and fighting adversities, we will
definitely attain our goal. This intense fight
against challenges and tough situations helps
remove the darkness that engulfs a human
being’s consciousness and helps illuminate his
life. This is why wise men say – to enhance
talent we must willingly accept challenges at
each step of life. People who have talent earn
recognition everywhere with their hard work.
Their courage and willpower become the
guiding forces that drive them to the pinnacle
of success. And when they attain success while
overcoming intense challenges and obstacles
they set great examples for the whole society.
When ordinary persons attain extraordinary
success, no one can really know how much time
have they put in, how much struggle have they
put against adversities and how much efforts
have been put in to create the foundations for
fulfilling their dreams. They keep moving
forward on the basis of their courage, put
continuous efforts and finally ascend to
heights of success.
Whenever someone resolves to do something
and tries hard with all sincerity, then he attains
success sooner or later, though he may face
several difficulties on the way, and there may
be many distractions on the way that may lead
him astray. Sometimes many alternatives show
up, which are also no less than obstructions.
But a person with a firm resolve and honest
disposition does not choose any such
alternative or short cut. He chooses the
righteous path even if it is full of struggle and
difficulties and continuously strives to hone
his skills, refine his talents and increase his
capabilities. Instead of walking on beaten
paths, he creates new ways himself and
presents a great example to the society. All
the magnificent structures of success stand
only on the foundations of struggles.
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