Today’s Thought: Do You Have the Right Stuff?

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. ~ Frederick Douglass

NOTE: Ninety-nine percent of the current world population of 8.04 billion people know what Frederick Douglas was speaking about when he said, “no struggle, no progress.” It’s how life teaches us. Life requires us to learn and evolve (change, adapt). If we seek a life without struggle, we are seeking an illusion. Once we master something, the next challenge appears as if it was waiting for us. It’s asking us if we’re up to the challenge. The struggle is not so much with the challenge we face, the struggle is with ourselves. At each step we have to ask ourselves if we’re willing to sacrifice, focus, and commit our energy to the task with which we are engaged. Life asks us every day if we have the right stuff.