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So what exactly are we fighting in life?

So what exactly are we fighting in life?

Many times we feel tired, discouraged, and ask ourselves, "What exactly are we fighting in this life?" Some may answer, "fight poverty," "fight dreams," "fight time," or even "fight fate," but looking deeper, we may find our true enemy...It may not be something external, it is "ourselves."

We fight the uncertainty of life.

Life is nothing but certain. Today is happy, tomorrow is miserable, tomorrow is not, life is full of change, and this is what makes many people feel insecure and frightened. We try to plan, organize, expect, and control everything as we thought, but in the end, when things are unpleasant, we feel lost, in fact...No one wins or loses in the field of life, only those who "live" with uncertainty.

We fight expectations.

We set expectations for ourselves, for others, for the future, for everything around us, and when they do not meet our hopes, we feel disappointed, defeated, excessive expectations become a heavy burden on our minds, some people spend their lives fulfilling the expectations of their parents, their society, or their lovers, but forget to question: "What we are doing today...Is that really who we are? "

We fight impersonal fear.

Fear is not shaped, does not sound, but is powerful enough to stop our growth. We are afraid of failure, fear of error, fear of not being acceptable, fear of being compared, and fear of pain that may occur in the future. It is these fears that make many of us dare not step out of safe areas, do not dare to start over, and do not dare to love or forgive even ourselves.

We fight with the sound in the head.

The sound that says "not good enough," "not ready," "others are better" is a sound that we create ourselves, and sometimes it is so loud that it drowns out all the possibilities in life. This voice in our head is the culprit that makes us feel bad when we haven't even started to do anything. Sometimes what we have to fight is not the world, but our own thoughts, which imprison us in uncertainty.

We fight the past that we haven't released yet.

Many people have wounds in their hearts from the past and cannot forgive someone or even themselves. We struggle with guilt, regret, or memories that devour us silently in our hearts, and the more we hold on to it, the more we lose the power to live in the present.

Should we keep fighting?

The answer is yes, but it's not a battle to overcome all of the above, but to "live with it to be." We don't have to win uncertainty, not overcome fear, or even try to overcome ourselves. Just accept that it exists "and live as we are.

Try not to expect anything and be more comfortable with it, comfortable as you can see, knowing as you can, and not tired of thinking for yourself...

Maybe...To stop fighting may not be to give up, but to start living with understanding and forgiveness for everything we've fought for so long.

OK, then...What exactly are we fighting about?

The answers may vary from person to person, but no matter what we fight, one of the more important things than winning is not to forget that we are not born to fight for life, but to live.

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