The fight worth fighting for

 We fight for many things. We fight for a better tomorrow. We fight for better materials. We fight for various causes. We fight for many reasons. We fight for love. We fight for hatred. We fight for family. We fight for friends. We find reasons to fight a fight, and we struggle hard to win the fight.

We fight to ensure that we do not lose the love of our life. We fight to ensure that the one we loved once will never come back to us. We fight for the welfare of the company we work. We fight to betray the team we work with. We fight to buy the new iPhone that came out last week. We fight for the retro car that is the earliest model of Ford.

We fight for a dream that we have been nurturing since the beginning of ourselves. We fight for a dream that we just conceived a moment ago. We fight for the friend we had known for more than a decade. We fight for the child who was born just a second ago. We fight for a religion. We fight against a religion. We fight for a cause. We fight against a cause.

We fight for reasons we never understand. We fight because we feel that is what we must do. We fight because we know that we are fighters, born to fight for what we desire. Nothing comes free. Everything has a price. To win what you desire, you have to fight.

But what is it that you desire? What is it that you want? What is it you gain? More importantly, what is the fight worth fighting for?

I believe that it is the memory of the fight that is worth fighting for.

You may lose, or you may win. You may gain or you face pain. You may love or you may hate. You may be praised or you may be teased. It doesn’t matter, for words will fade, people will go away, but the memories and the emotions close to them stay.

If you remember something that makes you cry, you have fought a fight worth fighting for. If you remember something that makes you smile, you have fought a fight worth fighting for. If you remember something that elevates your heart beat, you have fought a fight worth fighting for. If you see something on the wall that you gained after so much effort, you have fought a fight worth fighting for. If you think of the thing you lost and worry about it, you have fought a fight worth fighting for. If you see the one you loved with someone else and feel mixed emotions, you have fought a fight worth fighting for.

In the end nothing will exist. In the end, only the memory of your journey remains. In the end, it is not what you gained or lost, who you gained or lost, where you went or why you did a thing wouldn’t matter, except the journey itself. It is the journey that we fight for today, for it is the memory to be remembered tomorrow.

So let me tell you what I believe. Close your eyes. Let a memory flow to you. Does it prick your heart? Does it raise your heart beat? Does a tear drop trickle down your cheek? Does a smile appear on your lips?

Is it a memory you own?

Then you fought a fight worth fighting for.

So keep fighting, for your fight today, is your memory tomorrow.

(Image Courtesy: The Truman Show)