Fights and struggles define us.

Life, a paradox in itself has a way of changing our lives when we least expect it. We can be happy at a moment and the very next moment something can break us completely. That is why life happens to be profoundly beautiful yet sad and tragic at times.

Life ain't perfect for anyone. If we see carefully we shall find that everyone around us is a little broken, who wants to give up on life at some point. They are tired of collecting their broken pieces and standing strong all the time. So, what is the ultimate plan? Does life come with an escape route? Is giving up the only way left? Ofcourse not! Never give up on yourself because no one else but you alone can get yourself out of the mess that life has created around you. You might be broken, you might be tired of trying but, please cling on the hope of having a better tomorrow, a better life and a better world because "the wound is the place where light enters you". This painfully beautiful line from Rumi sums it all, doesn't it?

Hoping helps and so does being broken because broken people know the worth of being strong. They have been through the excruciating pain that life induced them with and still manage to fight with it everyday. No matter if they lose their every fight to life and destiny every single day, that doesn't make them any less of a fighter. They keep fighting, they keep struggling, they keep losing unless a day comes when fights and struggles become their companion, their life.

If you were never wounded, you won't know the value of healing. If you were never lost, you won't know the value of being found. If you never failed, you won't know the value of success and if you were never broken, you won't value the strength of being strong.

So no matter how broken or wounded you are, no matter how many times you lost your way, no matter how many times you fail, never ever give up on yourself because at the end of the day it is our fights and struggles that truly define who we are and who we can be.

© Sheerin Naz.