It's the Struggle, Stupid!

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!