The Struggle Within..

Struggle comes in different shapes and sizes. Right from struggling to find a taxi in the morning or trying to patch a broken family..

Eternal struggle is the law of life. How often do we get pissed off, thinking, how unfair our world has been to us when try to compare our lives to those who've had it nice and easy. But the fact remains - nobody can save your ass, apart from the man in the mirror.

I think that father-son scene from the movie Rocky Balboa changed my life..

"I'd hold you up to say to your mother, "this kid's gonna be the best kid in the world. This kid's gonna be somebody better than anybody I ever knew." And you grew up good and wonderful. It was great just watching you, every day was like a privilige. Then the time come for you to be your own man and take on the world, and you did. But somewhere along the line, you changed. You stopped being you. You let people stick a finger in your face and tell you you're no good. And when things got hard, you started looking for something to blame, like a big shadow. Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done! Now if you know what you're worth then go out and get what you're worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain't you! You're better than that! I'm always gonna love you no matter what. No matter what happens. You're my son and you're my blood. You're the best thing in my life. But until you start believing in yourself, ya ain't gonna have a life."

I'm afraid life aint one of a Karan Johar movies. Here, you tend to get thwarted by some or the other situation which are more often than not, are a resultant of your own actions. Sad part is, sometimes you may have to take the onus of some other people's actions and deal with it. So what? Should you sit down and go with the flow? Or you trust your values and take a detour? What if it involves your own near and dear ones? In my case, I choose the latter. During the course of our lives we tend to close many doors and end a few chapters. What's important it is we embrace the change and move on. Opening new doors..

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself -- the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us -- that's where it's at.