It is not achievements or goals or trophies <br />Or accolades or awards or the end itself <br />For which we strive, we as humans think that <br />Is what we desire, but <br />What we really seek is adversity and suffering <br />We all desperately long for it <br /> <br />Yo may at first think it strange or untrue <br />But in fact it is what we all yearn for, even you <br />Simply getting a trophy or award means nothing <br />IT is the work, the blood, sweat, and tears <br />That we all really desire, it's that something <br />There's a voice inside everyone hears <br />Pushing them to do more, to achievement, <br />but that achievement is wrought in suffering <br />Empowered by the pain and time, as if heaven-sent <br />It is only in the trial that we can have triumph <br />Only in adversity we can make the jump <br />From mundane normalcy to achievement, thus it is <br />Truly the pain itself that separates normalcy <br />From triumph it is not the trophy or the end <br />But the means that got you there.<br /><br />David Knox<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/striving-for-suffering/
