Life-Struggles and the ultimate achievement of Peace

    Life has its ups and downs and when the storm of a long and tumultuous period calms down, it is then that peace sets in.You know when I try to understand life and I try to see it from the bird's eye view, then i can see it with all its hues and colors. It is so beautiful, like a rainbow, with its myriad colors.
  Life is indeed like a rainbow, wherein, there are so many different aspects, happiness , sorrow, miseries, success and scores of other things, that if one has look at it as a whole you fail to actually say whether your life was a miserable one or a hugely happy one. I can after the little experience , i have in my life , know for certain, that not a single individual on the face of the earth can say with full confidence , that he has never tasted sorrow, or failure in his life and if he says , then he is lying point blank!
   What I feel very frankly is that life has a beautiful  way of balancing out sorrows and joys, it tells you that come on now, you have had enough of joys now here comes a lot of sorrows and vice versa. It is a simple equation, if you don't know what sorrow is, then how will you value the joys that come after it. In the same way if you have too much of joy then life becomes boring and monotonous! Yes , there is no thrill in living a life with no challenges. One should struggle and know what it is to be sorrowful, as when you come out of the struggle and face the joys of your success , it is only you realize the value of what you were missing out.
   This is what is Life, in the real sense. During the time of miseries , you sometimes feel that there is no end to it , but when you come out of it victorious, you realize that you were raving and ranting for no reason, it was so simple and clear that ultimately you would come out of the rut very easily, only that you had to realize where you were wrong.
   As time has passed I have realized one thing very clearly and that is that any person can turn around his life according to his own wish, by only thinking in a logical way and taking things as they come and not get worked up or bogged down by a hell lot of troubles. Troubles have their way of throwing you off the hook, they literally block you from the world and you feel so surrounded by miseries that you feel , that now there is no way out. But only a sensible man who has wisdom and intelligence by his side , is able to veer away from any mental tension and he calmly faces the storm of troubles and snaps out of it the moment he gets a slight hold of things.
    After all this peace sets in and that is the ultimate prize anyone gets , after a long hiatus. One thing I want to assert is that this peace after a long struggle is only felt by those people who can listen to their souls and their inner voice, not by people who are restless and constantly wanting more in life.
   Peace, serenity, mental calm are the jewels which are valued by spiritual people and those people who are ordinary and they live their lives, just because they have to live it, don't experience this feeling of peace, as they don't know what is spiritual peace. Now, you will ask me why. The reason why most of the people who live ordinary lives don't feel the peace after a long struggle, as for them struggles are so much a part of their lives, that a small hiatus, only makes them more alert and they start preparing for their next struggle, so they don't get time to feel the peace and the calm.
   Life is like that , it is like the ocean, where the ocean is really calm before a storm and after a storm, but having storms is a normal aspect of life, without storms, the sea would not be the sea, in the same way without struggles, life would not be meaningful.henceforth when a person goes through struggles, he should not lose his calm and bear with the sorrows and wait for the struggle to finish and then enjoy the calm. This trend is more like the waves in the sea, which rise and strike the shores and then fall back, as it is their intrinsic nature. In the same way life huffs and puffs and gives you troubles and once they are over , you sit back and relax.
   Those who realize this general pattern of life, live a calm and peaceful life as they know that troubles are part and parcel of life. But, those who remain confused spiritually have a tough time managing life along with its troubles.
   In the end I would like to say that one should go with the flow and live life to the fullest. Be happy when you are joyous and face sorrows with a brave face and certainly you will come out victorious , if you don't lose heart. So, sit back and let life lead you to the way that it wants you to follow, rather you getting baffled by its normal ways.