Growth through struggle

The necessity for struggle is one of nature's clever devices which forces the individual to develop, progress and become strong through resi...

The necessity for struggle is one of nature8217;s clever devices which forces the individual to develop, progress and become strong through resistance.

Life from birth to death is an unbroken record of ever-increasing variety of struggle which no individual can avoid. Maintenance of good health calls for struggle 8211; struggle for food, struggle for shelter, struggle for earning a living, struggle to hold a job, struggle to gain recognition and so on.In whatever direction we may look there is hardly a circumstance which does not call upon struggle. The necessity for struggle has a definite and useful purpose. It helps the individual to sharpen his wits, arouse his enthusiasm, build up his faith, gain definiteness of purpose, develop his power of will and build up his power of imagination.

Struggle keeps a man from going to sleep with self-satisfaction or laziness, and forces him onward and upward to fulfill his mission in life. In every form of life, death comes from laziness or idleness. Our nature does not tolerate idleness. Through the necessity of struggle, nature keeps everything in a constant state of flux. The strongest of trees are not those which grow in heavy forests, but the ones who stand in open spaces as they are in constant struggle with wind and all elements of weather.

There may be pain in most forms of struggle, but nature compensates by giving the individual the power, strength and wisdom. It has been observed that no man who has not been thoroughly tested by the necessity of struggle seemed to ever have chosen the leader of times.

Most people go through by the line of least resistance in life. They do not recognise that by following the line of least resistance makes all the rivers and men crooked. The individual walks but it is an empty shell whose only hope for the future is a funeral. This has reference to able-bodied people who quit struggle because they are different and too lazy to keep on growing through the struggle.

One has to be reconciled to the experience of struggle we undergo while passing through this way and accept them as circumstances of opportunities through which we may prepare ourselves for still higher and better planes of existence than the one on which we now dwell.