The Challenges In Life Are Never Easy...
The struggles we face in life are never easy. sometimes, they make you want to quit. The challenges become so hard, that sometimes... there is no way to overcome them.
Like any game or sport, where there is a given result, you either win or lose, the object is to win. The same is true for living. Like a sport, You want to end victorious. But that doesn't always work out that way. You can't just win every game without some sort of challenge to prevent you from winning. You may be pitted against someone else who is in your same situation, where it's their goal to win. It becomes a challenge. You must overcome the other to win. Battle of the best. Sometimes, your put in odds that are against you. Sometimes... You lose.
The same can be used in life. You want to win in life. Thats everyone goal. But life gives you challenges, and if the challenge defeats you, the game is over and you lose. Many people never lose, it happens all the time. Those people live happy lifes where life is good. Then there are some who are faced with challenges that the odds are against them. Soon, the challenge is unbearable, and they end up forfiting, conceding... they give up... they lose.
Life has been kind to me, i wish to think. but alas, life has its cruel side. I am constantly faced with these challenges, so much that it has become overwhelming. They have been overwhelming me for the past 6 yeaers... almost 7. I struggle constantly to keep ahead of the challenges, hoping to win, and not lose. Which is why i try to think life has been kind to me... it has given me much hope.
So much hope, that it blinds me. i see hope in everything. In the game or sport, underdogs win. Champions are defeated... there is an "upset"... and sometimes those against the odds win. I see hope for the underdogs... i see those who are faced with all of these challenges winning, and not giving up and losing. That other person you may be competing against may be better than you, but something may happen. They may slip, they may get injured, they themselves may give up. I see this hope for everyone... but sometimes, i lose hope for myself because i care so much about the others and helping them along with their challenges, that i lose track of the game in front of me. Its as if i sit along the sidelines, while my opponent makes goal after goal. My odds slip further and further the more i sit on that sidelines, until it seems theres no way for me to comeback and win.
Though life has given me moments of joy, life also shatters that joy in my face. It seems whenever i find a shred of happiness, fate sees the joy and feels it has to interveine. Fate uses its pawns against me, my mother, my father, my brother, my friends, anything and everything in this world and out of this world to keep my happiness from spreading.
Imagine, if you will, a man who has it all. A wonderful loving family... kids who make great marks in school, makes great money, just... life is going great for him. Now, imagine if you will, challenges that get in his way. His wife dies in an automobile accident. His company he works for goes bankrupt. His kids act differently... he finds everything he had that he once loved just... gone. I feel like... like this man would feel. i feel like everything around me is just... falling apart. i feel like the challenges life has given me are winning. It seems the odds are slipping, and soon... there will be no choice but to concede.
The struggles we face in life are never easy. Sometimes, they make you want to quit. The challenges become so hard, that sometimes... there is no way to overcome them.
<3 Matthew