Life Means Fighting Your Way UP

Life Means Fighting Your Way UP

Hell, how can things be lifeless when we got a full life ahead of us?  It's NOT as if we sprung out on this planet comatose.  Instead, we were all born with bags full of hope being nursed first by our very own parents.  What is deflating to hear is when people we know would hit the wall and end up as an utter failure. All along, life means fighting your way UP.

Our lives are incomparably much easier when compared with the lives of our ancestors.  Most of us today DON'T even have to imagine what it would be like to hunt for our own food, grow our own crops, tend to a fire OR [worst of all] entertain ourselves without all the gadgets all over our place these days.  In fact, we now live in the SAFEST and MOST PEACEFUL times in human history [barring something cataclysmic happens] down the road.

Truth is, even when we are idle, we all can afford to be daydreaming.  So, life has never been this better and easier.  Yet, it pains me to see and know that many still fail.  Why oh why.  What is the jinx that's leading us to that deep abyss?  Even in the western world where the average life is already considered affluent as compared to the Third World, why do we still hear a surge of depression?  Just one too many struggles in life are happening around us.  

And if we swing over to the Third World, life is that miserable day-in day-out.  People struggle and live way below the poverty line.  Me thinks, all these are a product of our complacency straight from our childhood.  Probably, we didn't see the role models that should have been our guide in our future.  And maybe, we were just following the footsteps of our previous generations, even if it means that their previous footsteps got it all wrong.  Where will we ever end if we continue to be caught up with this vicious cycle of sufferings and endless sights of poverty by the impoverished, the least fortunate?

C'mon, are we all living and breathing simply to survive?  Can't we enjoy life, feel the beauty around us?  Earlier in my life, if I was told that HAPPINESS is a choice, I would have laughed it off.  And I might call you simply CRAZY.  After all, no one chooses to experience things like pain of low self-esteem, anxiety or worst, depression.  What I've come to realize later is that HAPPINESS isn't about leading an obstacle-free life but instead, it's all about LEARNING how to change what you focus on and how you react to circumstances regardless whether they're good or bad.  And, nothing wrong for you to realize that life means fighting your way UP✅✅✅