Is Life Struggle?

"We are not here to play, to dream, to drift,

We have hard work to do, and loads to lift,

Shun not the struggle, it’s God’s gift."

Edison, the world’s greatest inventor and scientist, was a poor telegraph operator. He failed a number of times but he never stopped struggling. Finally, he was succeeded in his inventions of phonograph, motion picture camera & light bulb.

Charles Dickens began by pasting labels on blacking pots. Disappointment of his life drove him to literature. By hard work he became the greatest novelist of the nineteenth century.

Helen Keller became deaf, dumb and blind shortly after birth. Despite her misfortunes she has written her name in the golden pages of the history. Her entire life has served the evidence that no one is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality. 

These and many other persons who were seriously handicapped in the game of life ever once yielded to their foes and at last won the game by heroic struggle, they had to fight against the heavy odds and there were times when the game was almost lost but none of them accepted defeat “as a reality.”

"The life of man from birth to death is the struggle.

We are born in other’s pain,

And perish in our own."

In the mother’s womb a child struggles against a number of difficulties when a child is born, he finds himself in a world where every moment is full of struggle, when he grows up into a man this struggle further intensified. Right up to death he must keep fighting otherwise he will be clean bowled out of life. 

Darwin, who had studied the struggle between different species, came to the conclusion that there is a continual struggle for existence. In the race for life only the fittest can survive, if we study the history of men and nations we will find that struggle goes on in every form and field of life. Those who cannot join the struggle have no right to ask for the prize.

So, when we cogitate all of the above mentioned point, we will come to a conclusion that Life is all about struggle & you cannot shun the struggle. In one way or another you have to struggle to get a desired life. And the day when you stopped struggling, your life will deter to develop.