Summary
Calling Life "easy" constitutes an essential ignorance of its nature and an arrogant act. It can be affirmed that Life is beautiful or that the act of living is a blessing like few others, but for this reason its difficulty does not disappear, just as the Sun does not cease to exist just because it is enjoying a cool night.
Main body
We can have, or not, a positive sense of Life, we can understand to a lesser or greater extent that life is an invitation for achievement, for conquest and for happiness, we can discuss the degrees of wisdom that exist to understand the life, we can place ourselves at different angles to understand what a quality life is or what quality of life should be, we can accept that those who are close to delivering it know more about Life than those who take their first steps in it, We can even argue about the imminence of Life after death, we can do all this and more, but it can never be said that Life is easy!
Difficult times, bad news, sorrows, pains will come to each person. No one will be alien to illness or death, contempt, lack of love, abandonment. The tests can be passed with good spirits, victory will be achieved at the end of each process, but no one can claim that the process is easy.
Calling Life "easy" constitutes an essential ignorance of its nature and an arrogant act. It can be affirmed that Life is beautiful or that the act of living is a blessing like few others, but for this reason its difficulty does not disappear, just as the Sun does not cease to exist just because it is enjoying a cool night.
Life is a struggle that begins in early existence and ends with it. Little time is given to man to stay out of this reality, just the few years of childhood and unconsciousness. Then it's all fight, until the final day.
I don't think this is a struggle to live, because at the end of the day you live anyway; it is rather a struggle to "live well" or "not live badly." If it is not fought, Life imposes conditions on human fragility, those conditions that inertia and chance determine. By undertaking the struggle, man tries to give a more benign or beneficial shape to the reality he faces, and this is what it is all about! There is not a man, nor was there one, who had managed to impose all his conditions on Life, at most they have given favorable forms to the conditions that it determines. That is why the process of living is a struggle and not a conquest, because there is no definitive victory, because a small victory only leads to the next battle.
Life summons fighters or victims. There is no other category. Whoever underestimates the rigors of Life ends up being its victim, whoever overestimates the capacities of struggle concludes the same. Life only respects those who fight, at all times, throughout the process, with the greatest effort and commitment, as those who do not have bridges built behind them.
The permanent struggle to "live well" or "not live badly" is one of the few factors common to that large portion of the human race that has not been included among the victims. This action of fighting grants the first and only common profession, precisely that of "fighter in life", all the other skills and other knowledge that are acquired in the course of existence fulfill the purpose of being added to this basic one: fight for life.
This ability to fight always, with skill and without fainting, also differentiates some men from others, even among the group of those who fight. Some men make flesh of the inescapable need to always fight and become Warriors: professional fighters, others simply fight. For the Warriors, Life not only holds more victories, it also holds joy and rest.
Only he who makes fighting his essential profession can find joy in the fray and rest in the fight. For the Warrior, who with the simple fighter maintains the same distance as the swan with the duck, the fight is a natural, unalterable and omnipresent environment, therefore it is also a completely neutral element. And it is that neutrality that allows there to be calm, tranquility and rest.
In the Fight to "live well" or "not live badly" the Warrior with the best conditions and the best disposition is the one who achieves the most victories. This is the profession that determines the possibility of achieving more benign or beneficial forms in the conditions imposed by Life. The one who accumulates more knowledge or skill in the arts or sciences does not have better possibilities or conditions, the one who has them is the Warrior who has made a profession of the struggle for Life. He is not the Doctor and he is not the Engineer, he is not the Lord and he is not the Knight.
The Struggle for life does not end in the greater accumulation of goods, or in the conquest of love, or in the victory over illness or in the false feeling that dreams are ever achieved, the Struggle only ends when life ends. of the Warrior, and it is in the full awareness of this that the Warrior can achieve joy and rest.
Success for the Warrior is always written with a “lowercase e”; there is no such thing as Success by denomination. All that can be wrested from Life is a victory in the battle that anticipates the next contest. But in that "small e" is where the secret of joy and calm is found, in the possibility of understanding victory and giving it the relevance it deserves, especially in the context of a war that has not ended and will never end. The Warrior knows this, the one who only fights does not understand it, and the victim does not care about this.
In the conception and formation of the Warrior in the fight for Life, it is a fundamental error to affirm that Life is easy. It is a fundamental mistake to affirm that Life is a territory of conquest, a fundamental mistake to catalog success.
Life is none of this. Life is just a cry that summons the Warrior.
