Struggle to death

I am in my fifties and I have led a life I always want to lead. I have shaped my own life conception and followed my convictions. I have fulfilled many ambitions and missed others. I have always lived on my ambitions and goals and tasted hope and despair and I strongly yearn to reach my potential. I am not an idol but I forged my own typical way of living. I am not content with my life but I am proud of my attempts.

There is a great man who settled in my mind and heart and provided me with the best tools for building my own concepts, conceptions, insights, and visions. He is my grandfather, a great man who manifested simplicity, distinction, and wisdom.

He always stressed on the value of struggling. The concept STRUGGLE was present almost in all his statements. One day, and after having got aware of the weight of concepts, I did ask him the seemingly simple question : “How do you perceive the concept STRUGGLE?”

He smiled and said: “ By asking such a question, you prove that you set foot in the path of self-improvement. I see the concept STRUGGLE as a creed, a way of living that turns the impossible into the possible, the unthinkable into the thinkable, the unknown into the known, and the doubtful into the certain.”

I listened carefully to every word and said: “ I need to read a lot and live many years to understand your conception.”

He added: “You need courage and grit to set out on your journey of struggling.”