We are all strugglers.
We face pain everyday.
That is the underlying bind that ties us all.
WE ALL SUFFER.
The only difference is the degree of intensity of the suffering.
Therefore,
I retract my previous statement.
I now fully embrace and accept the fact that
LIFE IS SUFFERING.
It is an absolute statement.
No one gets out unscathed.
We struggle from the millisecond we arrive.
We struggle for air.
Then we stumble through life
trying not to drown.
We face many problems,
things that seem insurmountable in the moment,
but everything gets resolved with time.
We always want so desperately to have our way,
but I've learned that in pursuing this you only suffer more,
and that
when you do get your way, you appreciate it that much more.
Life is about struggling.
We have to struggle.
WE struggle like Guts and everyone else from Berserk.
Even Griffith.
We fight desperately for our ideals.
We cling on to the idealized versions of our lives in our heads.
And sometimes we impose that onto others,
causing them to suffer as well,
thus creating a never ending link of pain that expands,
and reaches out to everybody affected by causality.
Cause and effect.
We need struggle.
It is encoded into the very fabric of this existence,
therefore, how can the statement not be absolute?
We desire things.
With desire comes disappointment
and with disappointment comes suffering
when the object of ones desire is not met.
We have expectations as well.
And when said expectations aren’t met, depending on how we react
we suffer because of it.
We have attachments as well.
And when the attachment breaks,
We may fall into despair.
Life is full of pain,
but we must keep struggling,
From our first, until our last breath.
