Life is a Battle

    By Vic Odarve

Life is a battle, regardless of whether one is poor, rich, or powerful. Poor individuals, who comprise the biggest fragment of the total populace, need to battle to meet their needs … food sources, safe houses, and schooling. The affluent and the bigwigs in our society also battle drug and liquor addictions, gambling, affliction, and some more. World leaders, as well, powerful as they appear to be, need to battle for the endurance of their administration because of political foes, a falling apart economically, and ineffective international policy. Life, indeed, is a battle! 

The Village of Mayana

 According to a UN expert, nearly one-fifth of the world population or 1.4 billion people cannot fulfill the most basic needs every day. A few decades ago, poverty was concentrated in rural areas in most developing countries, but a recent study showed that urban poverty is also increasing as fast as cities are growing. These areas are refugees of drug addicts, criminals, and many epidemics that ravage a nation's wholesome environments. Inadequate access to safe water, poor sanitation, overcrowding, and insecure residential status make poor people’s life miserable!

History consistently advises us that to endure and support their autocratic administration, leaders must struggle to stay in power. In countries like Russia, North Korea, and China, the leaders must consolidate their power with super-wealthy backers, torture political opponents in jail at a moment’s notice, and maintain secret agents. At home, for example, Duterte also struggles over his foreign policy in China and the United States, a problem with Manila’s traffic, and EJK’s over the war on drugs and the covid 19 pandemic control. These problems are causing the political opposition to go against the president, promote a jeepney’s strike, and stage various human rights demonstrations. As always in the history of world leaders, their lives are also in deep trouble, and they are struggling in pain.

Farming- A Village Life

In the academic world, both professors and students struggle to learn and adopt the new technology the world has to offer. To reduce the number of academic years required for a college degree, most colleges and universities adopted a three-term per year schooling model. Thus, professors, as well as the students, must cope with the completion of the syllabi for the given time frame. It is like feeling like the presence of huge rhinoceros running after them at their backs. It is the modern world, coupled with modern gadgets and inventions, that makes imparting learning to our students faster and easier. But we must struggle so as not to be left behind.

Whether we like it or not, there is no way to avoid the struggles in life. And in every struggle, there is heartbreak, emotional trauma, and setback. But all these things can make people stronger and better.

Believe it or not, the human battle ends when life ends.

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