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Life
Is 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, ‘t’s God's gift.
Edison ,the world's greatest inventor and
scientist, was a poor Telegraph operator . He failed a number of times before. He
was driven, finally, to the discovery of the genius which slept within his
brain .
Charles Dickens
begin by pasting labels on blacking pots . Disappointment in love drove him to
literature . By hard work he became the greatest novelist of the 19th century .
Helen Keller
became deaf, dumb and blind shortly after birth . Despite her misfortunes she
has written her name in the pages of the history of the Great . Her entire life
has served as 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 never
once yielded to their foes, and at last
won the game by heroic struggle . They had to fight against 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 a struggle:
We
are born in other’s pain
And
Perish in our own
In the Mother's
Womb the child struggles against a number of difficulties . When the child is
born it finds itself in a world where every moment is full of struggle . When he
grows up into a man, this struggle is further intensified . Write up to death
he must keep fighting otherwise he will be clean bowled out of life . Darwin,
who had studied the struggle between in different species, came to the
conclusion that there is a continuous 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 .
The entire story
of human civilization is a story of struggle against the forces of nature . In the
beginning man lived in Caves . Sun and rain, clouds and thunderstorms
frightened him to death . When the rivers were in spate, he of road human sacrifice
to appease their anger . When he looked upon the huge mountains, he prostrated before them . But
soon man came to realise that he can defeat the hostile forces of nature by his
struggle against them, and even turn them to his use . Today, we find that his
struggle has been rewarded . The forces of nature are no longer hostile to man;
nor man is afraid of them . He has harnessed the rivers . They irrigate his
land, eliminate is towns and cities . The arid deserts have been converted into
Fruit Gardens . The mountains are no longer unassailable . Mount Everest and K - 2
have been conquered bye man . In the field of chemistry, medicine and physics
the story of human struggle is still more astonishing . A story from the life
of Henry Ford will illustrate it amply .
If you years
back, Henry Ford decided to produce his now famous V - 8 Motor . He choose to
build an engine with the entire 8 cylinder cost in one block, and instructed the engineers to produce a design
for the engine . The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a
man, that it was simply impossible to cast an 8 cylinders gas engine Block in
one piece . Henry Ford said:” produce it in anyway.” They replied: “ it is
impossible.” But what was impossible at first or second attempt, became a solid
possibility through human struggle .
Man’s struggle
is not only against the forces of nature, or physical environment but also
against Society for social, economic and political rights . In the past
struggled against autocrates for the right to live . Today the struggle against
parliaments and assemblies for more rights, power and privileges . The communists
are struggling against capitalism, and the capitalists are contending against
communism . This struggle goes on everywhere in the world.
The rewards that
we get in life are in direct proportion to our efforts . Life offers abundance
and prosperity to those who merit it . It
gives poverty and misery to a man who is lazy and in different . A great poet
has beautifully stated this universal truth in these lines:
“If
you think you are beaten, you are,
If
you think you dare not, you don't.
If
you like to win, but think you can't,
It
is almost certain you won’t,
If
you think you will lose, you’re lost.
For
out of the world we find,
Success
begins with a fellow’s will------
It's
all in the state of mind.”
Thus ‘ state of
mind’ is the urge for life that precedes All action . The man who wants to be
at the top of the ladder must not shrink at the first failure . He should keep
fighting till success Crowns his efforts:
“Life's
battles don't always go
To
the stronger or faster man;
But
soon or later the man who wins,
Is the man who thinks
he can.”
