Struggle has taken an untold number of people around the world to greatness, financial prosperity and comfort. It is a very important key to success. Unfortunately, many people do not know this. Even the few, who know, do not use it well to their benefit.
Often we here people complaining that they struggle so much, as if struggle were a bad thing. They cry and pity themselves because they always have to struggle to get even the smallest things in life. This makes it appear as if struggle were a bad thing.
Often, you here people laughing at others for having to struggle before achieving their aims in life. For this reason some people see struggle as something degrading. Hence, they do not want others to know that they are struggling to get what they wish to get.
The fact is that struggle is a good thing depending on how we take it. It is truly said that struggle can make or break us. It can lead to greatness just as it can bring about failure. If we take a negative attitude towards struggle, it will become a burden to us, but if we take a positive attitude, it can lead to tremendous benefit. It is negative to look at struggle as suffering or to fear and complain about it.
On the other hand it is positive to see it as a part of life and a stepping stone to achievement. Taken this way, it will serve as a challenge and can therefore become an asset.
Through struggling, we grow, we expand, we develop, we progress, and we become wiser and stronger if we handle it rightly. Strength, be it physical or mental, can only be gotten through struggle. For example, your muscles can only become strong if they are out to constant use.
One thing to be noted about struggle is that it is a life-long process. It does not end with one success or even with a few of them. Struggle comes day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute and second by second. No one escapes struggles. The big and small, the rich and the poor, the clever and the dull, the weak and the strong all have to struggle.
We’re born to struggle.
