The Fighter Inside Us

“...It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.”


For a long long time, I've been trying to open up this space on my laptop and keep hitting the keys until the characters turn into a passage that resonates the beating of a heart that is still alive. As romantic as it may sound, that's not how writing works. It demands efforts and time. It needs you to sit down and think about what you have to say and how you will say it. It wants you to fight the turmoil that is whirring inside you and write whatever escapes its vortex. Hence, this blogpost. Life is a constant struggle and I believe that this struggle is the greatest proof of being alive. If you are still breathing, you are alive and fighting. And fight you must, for the day we lay down and turn our backs on life shall be the day all meaning and purpose of our existence is lost. In a utopian world, there is no struggle but this is no Wonderland. You cannot escape the battle you were always destined to fight. Every single one of us is constantly caught up in a struggle with themselves. The more people I meet, the more struggles I am aware of. Someone who has stayed with their parents all their life is struggling hard to cling on to any semblance of individuality they can find. Someone who has been away from home for too long is battling for one and trying to find it in a person, if not a place. Some are still fighting to find their own identity and trying not to be the influence they always were under while others do not like who they are and trying to be someone they can bear to be. Someone is trying to keep at bay the memories of a haunting past while someone is trying to remember the good times. All in all, as long as we are fighting, no matter how defeated or failed we feel, we are alive, and that is winning at life.

"निभाना आसान नहीं होता खून के रिश्ते भी
सारी उम्र निकल जाती है बस खुद से लड़ाई में"
वसीम बरेलवी 

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  1. देखो arnay , जीवन में हर आदमी को इतना संघर्ष तो कर ही लेना चाहिए कि बच्चो को किसी दूसरे का उदहारण न देना पड़े . दूसरी बात - अगर आप जीवन में अपनी अलग पहचान बनाना चाहते है तो पिता कि छाया से दूर चले जाना चाहिए . समझे बेटा जी .
    और हाँ , शेर तो बेहतरीन है ही ...

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