Life is a battle

Life is always full of troubles. This is a kind of fight against some unknown enemy that may exist outside you self or it may reside within you. The outward mystereous enemy may be a person or a group of person, or it may be some physical force, for example rain, earthquake etc. If you are a believer in ghost phenomena, then it might be a ghost or some supernatural force. For religious people, the ultimate personification of this evil enemy is in the shape of The Devil. So all these are a kind of external phenomenon. Then there are some mysterious enemies that live in your own being. These are the mental, psychological, or physical hindrances or disabilities that you inherited from parents or got them from the circumstances you were brought up. A man lacking the ability to speech or see is a physical phenomenon. Although I am a firm believer that if physical disabilities donot cause psychological complexes or you overcome on these complexes, then we may cut out the physical disabilities from this list.


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Then there is mental hindrances. A person born with a low IQ is a real case where hope has a lesser margin than disappointment. But still there is hope which we will discuss in the next part of this article. Also in this field comes people with incurable metnal diseases like Autism. But if we see life in broader perspective, the percentage of people that are handicapped by some physical or mental disability, is very low as compared to normal people. So we will mostly concentrate on normal people which means people that don't have severe and incurable physical or mental disability or disease.
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Again coming to that mysterious force with wich all of us remain busy fighting all the life. The last but not the least is the force that sits in our psyche. This is the most important of all other types. All other types donot become enemies till they donot merge themselves in this psychological enemy. This enemy has myriads of shapes and colors and every individual breathing in this world has some common and some individual shapes of this force. So we will try to genralize as much as we can. I hope just some examples will suffice to make the point clear. The first example is a man who fears to speak with strangers. those who are unable to speak in a gathering have almost the same problem. This lack of capacity makes their life miserable and all the life they go on fighting a loosing battle with this phenomon. Another example is of those people who cannot work consistently. Something very obnoxious is sitting within them, steering them adrift in the wild ocean of life. They have a volatile soul, always searching for something new, cannot resist the impulse to travel to unknown world, leaving the hlaf explored regions behind. They determine to work for one goal only but this mysterious force within smiles on all such decisions and smashes down the whole artifice of their resolves when it is inclined to do so. A great example is of the poeple who are always looking for love in life. In quest of this unseen attraction, they constantly change the partners in life. And this makes their life miserable. And they are doomed to end life behind the bars of in old homes with no one to come and take care of them. This is a vast list but these three examples are just to understand the hidden within force with with everyone fights all the life and very rare lucky ones can win over it.
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So far as the Physical forces are concerned, space for individual is very limited. If torrentous rains are destroying your agricultural farms, their is very little you can do. Likewise in case of an earthquake, the response time is so small that you need the hand of luck to avoid disaster. Yet one thing is in your hands. In all these case if the damage is done, you can save your integrity from being demolished by positive thoughts. No weird psychological excercises are not needed. The most important of all remedies is the phrase, "If I am still alive I have to fight this battle". This is not a sentence, rather, it is a whole philosophy and a generic rule that all human beings need to learn. In fact everyone follows it, but this process takes so much time and energy that it is at times too late. In all situations where you have lost something very precious, keep in mind that time will heal all the injuries and bereavements. But this is in your hand to shorten this journey of suffering. And the only remedy is this magic phrase. If you are alive then you can get back most of the things lost, exept in rare cases, where you have lost some dear ones. But then you have to rise up again as you are still alive and still this fight is going on. To accept defeat means more and more suffering. To decide to fight back means less suffering. In most cases when a dear one is gone, you only feel his or her absense which makes your life miserable. You know that you cannot bring him or her back. This feeling makes you crest fallen. It means if you conqure this grief, life can be much easier for you. So why wait for the brutal hand of time to heal the wounds. Why not keep in our mind, "If I am still alive I have to fight this battle"


Mujahid Hussain Khattak
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