SEC - S15W3 : LIFE AS AN ENDLESS STRUGGLE

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I'm tired of life. I just wish I could just die. I've suffered a lot in life. House rent, school fees, feeding money, work and bills. How will I take care of my family and life? I'm earning 30k in a month and yet I have 4 children to cater for, house rent to pay, books to buy and feed to pay. God should just take away my life. I don't think any man has struggled the way I've struggle. All these were lamented by one man who escaped death.

Every man on earth either rich or poor have at one point struggled in life or are still struggling. They struggle with the hope that things would get better with time. All they need is just patience and endurance. Others struggle with no hope. They view these struggles as a normal way of life. What are my struggles as a student? If I'm to expatiate, I'll definitely write a book on this.

The meaning of life as an endless struggle in everyday life is very complex but straightforward. This extends in various aspects of life of which I'll explain in details. In life, we face challenges that spirings from physical, academic, financial, social and emotional. As imperfect humans, we struggle are bound to struggle or suffer achieve lot of things. Even to make money is a struggle because you'll have to work, depriving yourself of your time and get stressed just to get this money.

The rich and the poor struggle to get money and more money from the businesses or work they do. They work endlessly to get this money. Those that are rich wants to get richer. So they'll go heights to get these money which deprives them of some things and also stresses them a bit or more. Their struggle may not be as intense as someone who has barely enough to eat.

This one may involve in a kind of struggle that at times it isn't worthwhile. They'll work from morning till nights for 30 days only to earn a small wage that won't even be enough to get them stability. There's a popular saying, No pain, no gain. We all struggle in the following areas.

Academic struggle
Work struggle
Financial struggle
Physical struggle

So in as much as you're in existence, you must struggle because life is an endless struggle. It's only us that can change the struggle from being hard to a one we can bear.

One personal Challenge I'm facing currently is Academic challenge. As a student, I experience what is called mental work or stress everyday. Balancing my work here on steemit, mentoring newbies, reviewing posts and doing other digital skills are demanding and is a challenge to me. It's only on Grace that I could perform excellently well in school and still create one content a day.

The stress I pass through in school is enough to weigh me down. All students are stressed at some point in time and need encouragement to press on. Just imagine the following scenerios

Struggling to attend lectures
Assignments upon assignments
Carrying out practicals: This particularly stresses me the most on campus.
Working under the sun to sign forms and writing exams
Reading to pass an examination

These stress involves using your brain for longer hours and even depriving ourselves of certain things we originally do. When I remember that I've gone too far to give up now, I continue pushing. A lot of us were very much eager and happy as we got admission into the university. Unknown to us that the institution would become advanced meaning of hardwork, we then came to a realisation.

We saw that school gets tougher as one goes up. At times results you didn't expect shows up that discourage you from even reading in preparation for another. I'll see people work and at the same time go to school. This really isn't easy. Most of them carry over course as they don't have that time to balance up. They place more emphasis on one than the other.

These are the challenges I face on a daily basis that's why I write diary so that my suffering won't be vain. Since the institution takes pleasure in stressing me, I'll take pleasure in converting this stress to money. This is the bridge story of my student life on campus. It's my major personal Challenge.

Like I said, academic stress has been my major problem because I find it hard to balance up with other activities . If I try balancing up 70%, 30% would suffer badly and I'm the 30%. Since this year started, I barely have time to sleep at night because when I'm back from school at night, I have lot of responsibilities to shoulder which includes

• reading
• training newbies
• checking on old users
• working on school projects
• working on chores and responsibilities in the house
• reading my books and
• creating one content before morning.

So just imagine you're back from school by 7pm and you use 1 hour to settle down, you have 4 hours to do the above mentioned. So it's not been really easy on me but I'm sailing through. How?

Everything that happens in my life is natural and I call it grace and not just human power. @nsijoro asked me someday how I managed to create contents on steemit and even review posts on a daily basis but still perform well in school. I told him it's grace and that i don't really know how God helps balance this.

One parent Called me last year telling me to stop forcing his child on steemit and that his child doesn't concentrate again because of steemit. I told her creating contents on steemit is a choice. But I'll tell you the secret.

• When I'm back from school, I'll surf the net till 12Am and then start creating Contents for the next day by 12Am to 3Am. I'll then take to reading my books for 2 hours before sleeping for an hour and then get prepared for school. That's how I do run it.

My parents have been my major source of support and encouragement academically. If I were to support myself all alone, I bet it wouldn't have been that easy because most of my time would be dedicated to work than school. I also appreciate the support I do receive on steemit. It has helped me in school especially in minor expenses. I don't wander or borrow people when I have steemit and my parents although things are becoming tougher with them.

That's why I try my best to take over my responsibilities from my parents and then become the man that I ought to be. On steemit, the friends I have as users are great source of encouragement to me as they post consistently too which makes me stand on my toes.

Self-motivation has been my guiding principle as I won't wait for anyone to tell me to push further. I started and it's already late to quit. So I try motivating myself as much as possible, placing my future at stake and what I stand to gain not quitting. Everyone says I didn't come to this school with you meaning that you shouldn't expect anyone to drag or force you to do the basics.

You suffer alone, get stressed alone and die alone. But asides self-motivation, I've got the encouragement of friends who choose to form a close bond with me. This friendship has lasted for over 3 good years and counting. We read together and do almost everything in school together. This life is a struggle.

Life is survival of the fittest. Only those who knows how to struggle well will enjoy. I invite @emmy01, @whizzbro4eva and @uduak3287