Bill Clinton once turned an election campaign around with his now famous one liner - "It's the economy, stupid!"Well the same experience happened for me last week when a smart Burmese guy here at work made a reflection that just hit me there and then. He told me that I was so much stronger now than when he first met me 12 months ago. I straight away had this line just come to me - "It's the struggle, stupid!"
I do not have to repeat myself nor go into describing the issues of my struggle, nor do I choose to do so. Just a waste of energy and I am over it. What is the key is the struggle itself as it is the way to building up life.
To put it in perspective, I believe that the key insight into life is appreciating how vulnerable we are which is what comes to us through the struggle we all share and know.
I am a vulnerable and fragile human being and it is as that person that I can act on my life and build it up. I ask - Why? For me, it is because I no longer have to be someone else nor be the person that others want me to be. I don't have to be perfect because I am not. I don't have to be successful because I don't need to be. I don't have to be in control because it does not work. I just be me and build myself up from where I am with a little help from my friends.
So the struggle makes me. I am not at the end but on the way. I am not perfect but don't want to be and never will be. So the struggle continues and it makes me who I am. What a journey it is.
It's the struggle, stupid!
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