The Strongest Have Their Moments of Fatigue

Pao Kia Yang
Graduate

Osborn University High School

Some live to seek for a reason to why they’re living, while some struggle to to be the best they can be. Some may do only enough to get by, again some can care less. But for those unfortunate, puts up a bullet in their head. All those memories they kept, the moments that swept them off their feets, and the tears that brought them down to their knees…bursted into flames, turned into ashes, and blowned away by the wind. Regardless of what path we chose to walk, struggles are always there waiting for that one moment when we rise. Our hard work of lifting away those burdnes right off our shoulders only brought invitations to more. Sometimes you wonder if there is a purpose for you to do good when all that comes back are the bad. You feel as if there’s no use for you to struggle so hard because in the end, you know you won’t get what you want. You know for a fact that there is no worser feeling than failing yourself. Fighting so hard to then realize that in the end, you’ve just shattered your own dreams.

Then, you have people around you who try to cheer you up by telling you that you’ve tried your best, and that good things come to those who wait. Do they not understand what wait can do to someone? It can bring doubt. Talk is cheap. Cheap indeed. Yet, people believe it. Believing is seeing and as human beings that’s the least we can do. In the outside, I tend to live life as if I carry around an easy button. Once a problem comes up, solution is one push away. Refusing to face my inner emotions, I know well that things are the total opposite. I hate seeing the look of disappointment, struggles, guilts…it kills me to witness these emotions put on the faces of those who I care for the most.

Yes, I admit it. I admit that I may lie to myself everyday, I may not appreciate things I do, I dislike the fact that I can be selfish, I’m not always so sure about the decisions I make, I may not be perfect in size, shape or looks, I tend to wear a mask everywhere I go, and the list goes on and on…but that does not mean I find a way to get out of it. Inside, I do not chose to walk the ‘Easy Path.’ These struggles that I go through eveyday of my life may bring me down, but I have no reason to give up. I will always find a way to stack it right under me and use it as stairs to help me reach higher goals. Life is like hell…there’s no other place in this world where you can claim freedom. You will always be stuck with something that’ll glue your head to the ground. You will always have others who are more than happy to step upon your dreams. But the struggles…the struggles…it’s what matters the most.

So for fathers who struggle to put food on the table, for the mothers who struggle to raise their children, for the young who struggle to define their paths, and for elders who struggle to teach the young…know that your struggles are highly appreciated. You act as a shield to protect your love ones from the struggles you’ve faced. You believe in their capabilities to do better because you believe that YOU CAN TOO OVERCOME.

And that talk may be cheap, but it’s the source that’ll help us get through in life. I want us to all not forget the fact that oak trees grow under strong winds, and that diamonds are made under pressure. We will suceed…I will succed.