The Different types of Struggles

I’m not going to count them through, but I must say when I thought with my calm, my mind showed me the variety of lenses we can look at one thing with, and see different with each!

What can running from a certain kind of struggle do? When I think of it, and read articles on Medium by so many strong people from so many different places, I learn that each has their own kind of struggle.

We dream of a utopia but know it can never be achieved.

Our beautiful Medium writers are constantly typing away their experiences about racism in their part of the world, whereas somewhere else women don’t have the freedom to wear pretty flowy green dresses even in the busiest streets of the city. On another chunk of land, a tall, dark and handsome boy in a casual hoodie can’t admire the midnight sky without the fear of seeming threatening. I have my own tale to tell, but it doesn’t make the rest of the world perfect for us…and that is the sad part.

Truth is, in a huge cluster of beautiful people, some evil minds dwell as well. There is a very common saying “one bad fish makes the whole pond dirty”

That’s the crux of it. Because of a few filthy people, a whole community must wear the label.

Here I must mention Hassan, who you knew albeit for a short time. Don’t lose faith in humanity. Obviously when one is victimized for whatever sort of struggle, they become temporarily afraid and avoidant of all such that will remind them of their tyrant, but with time we heal (as I mentioned in my most recent story) and we start to trust again.

We must trust again.

The best thing about human psychology is that our brain is always on the lookout for the better. We all know reality is harsh, yet we look at the glass half full and continue living, laughing, going about our life in the best way we can manage. If we were far too apprehensive about reality (for instance, gun-men, pick-pockets, bag-snatchers, etc) we would never leave the house!

The fact which seldom has its veil lifted from, is that

Men face it too.

I must confess I overlook their struggles.

For example, Hassan wanted to wear his hair long and probably go about with a metal look over all. Here is a truth (which might make you giggle, but it’s a truth nevertheless): he will never get a job with that ‘image’. Yep. That’s another stereotype: “Heavy metal youth does not deserve to be taken seriously.” and that’s a struggle. Women can wear their hair long or short, color them yellow or black, with streaks of pink and gold peeking about…but men cannot.

There are also times, when struggles are not gender based, or color based, but based on basic superficial human outlook. For example, I love heavy metal myself, but I cannot wear band merch in college because it is against dressing ethics. Most often, heavy metal fandom is perceived as offensive, although I have no idea why. There is no logic in my knowledge to support it.

So here were a few struggles of the beautiful people of this world. The reason I wanted to publish this is so we can all acknowledge them as well, not forget about men and women of any color alike.

This world is beautiful.

This world is more than its geographical and political boundaries (though travelling is pretty expensive!) and it is only if we look beyond its boundaries that we can assess our personal role on this planet, that our actions on one end of this land affect the social life of another fellow human on the opposite end.