Series of Struggles

“We may fall but we’ll keep on going

We may break but we won’t stay broken

Through the cracks in the road the flowers grow”

Alice Kristiansen – Moon and Back (https://youtu.be/7jiNJYbSMTw)

 

SOS is a term that the navy use in the face of difficulties. A distress call, so to say. SOS is an abbreviation of “Save our Ship”, “Survivors on Ship” or “Save Our Sailors”. One interesting thing about SOS is : it’s an ambigram, a word that can be read right side up and upside down, to help anyone from anywhere sees the signal thus enable them to dispatch help wherever it might be needed.

SOS teach you about struggle. In their case, they’re struggling to survive, as-in in the matter of life or death struggle. They literally struggle for their lives.

That is not the SOS I want to talk to you about, though. Well I do want to talk about struggle, or a Series of Struggles (SOS), to be precise. One of the most human thing every single one of us has encountered.

Struggle ; struggling :

“To make one's way with difficulty ; striving to achieve or attain something in the face of difficulty ; to proceed with great effort.”

That one piece of a song described struggle as beautiful as it is. That struggle might made us fall but we’ll keep on going, it may break us but we won’t stay broken and eventually, flowers will grow exactly through the cracks that the struggle made. Eventually, we will rise above our struggles and learn from them. Our struggle hardened us.

There is no telling of how much one had struggle throughout one’s life. It took a different form with each of us. One might struggle with one’s study, another one with one’s faith, some may struggle with the future of their lives, or many other struggles imagined to men. And there is no way we’ve encountered just one struggle in our lives, mind you. Because life is a series of struggles. We struggled from one struggle to another (confuse much?). Struggle is what make our lives worth living.

With struggle, come perseverance. Perseverance is persistency of doing something despite facing any hardships in order to achieve what we want. Perseverance is the key. Without persistency of pursuit, struggles will end up fruitless. Because somewhere along the line, we might decide to give up and change course. Somewhere along the fight, it might come to light that whatever we’ve been pursuing might not be worth the struggle at all.

If any of those things ever happened to you, please take a step back first. Push that pause button. Re-access the why you’re pursuing what you pursued, and only then you’ll be able to decide. Because anything made in a hot-headed manner won’t end great. String of regrets will likely follow after the decision was made.

So please think your decision through, okay? Because the worse thing than death is living a life full of regrets. Please do your best and keep struggling! I know you can do it!

(photo courtesy of google.com)

It shows us that we’ll always overcome

any series of struggles that came in our way,

no matter what.