Most of us go through some sort of 7-day routine. We get up, eat breakfast, get the kids to school, work our jobs, come back to evening tasks, then sleep so we can start again the next day. On weekends we meet friends or seek out some recreation, and go to church if we are religious. We don't fight battles and we are not warriors...
...or so it would seem to anyone watching our lives. In fact, we confront many battles. These are battles in our own minds, battles others (and even ourselves) cannot see. Every time someone does something wrong to us, we fight to control our tempers. When we lose a loved one, we fight to keep from being swept away by grief. When we see something we don't like about ourselves, we struggle to change it. We fight to find balance in our lives, between work and play, between toughness and caring, between the dark and the light which both live inside us.
We also have to deal with life's disappointments and unexpected events, and our reactions to them. We have to make difficult decisions while our divided interests pull us in different directions. All of these struggles are carried out not with the clang of steel, the breaking of bones, or the booming of guns and explosives, but with the tiny electronic firing of the neurons in our brains.
And we must fight. It's either that or be swept away by our emotions and whatever circumstances come upon us in life. That's part of being human. So many motivational speakers and philosophers have said in their own words: You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you CAN control how you respond to it, learn from it, and grow from it. These struggles and choices we grapple with daily are the battles in our minds.
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