Martin Luther King Jr.
The pursuit of happiness is never a easy road to travel, but worth the sweat and tears.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s words are brutally true. The recipe for success requires struggle and sacrifice -- a combination of discomfort and passion. To struggle for progress is perhaps the most aesthetic quality of humanity. Why is this? To have the ability to shape one's future within the limitations of the human-being is simply incomprehensible. How can the human-being create what is unknown to us? The sciences, the arts; how can our minds develop these abstract ideas into practice? Because people across the world have a conviction to understand their existence and pursue knowledge and peace. The true test of success is convincing the people around us to see life through your lens. This requires not only an incredible amount of trust, but blind faith for most people. Conflict occurs when two opposing philosophies clash, when two passionate parties proclaim they possess the truth. In the end, the victor will be the one who will struggle and suffers the most -- assuming both arguments are valid.
An incomplete thought,
Dan
