Well I have always wondered what could be the greatest thing a person could ask for - good health, wealth, a happy family? What has always seemed more important to me than all of these is the strength to endure. The man who has the strength to endure knows that every good/bad thing that happens to him is just a phase and which would be over soon. The power of being able to get detached is very well known to him and this power gives him the strength to keep calm and just take whatever happens as a phase. We have been given this life to understand the essence of existence. Life would be incomplete without disappointments. It is a necessity which we all need. The disappointments and challenges that life gives us eventually makes us a stronger person and also gives us the strength to endure. A man who has not endured enough has not ever known the real taste of success.
I remember I had this maths tuition teacher who I used to go to when I was in class 7-9. Initially I used to feel petrified of the sums that he used to give me. But now when I think about it what I realize is that whatever mathematics I am able to do now is all because of that man. Had he not made me learn that way then, I would not have been able to become what I am today. So the endurance has reaped fruits.
Think of a situation where a 12 year old boy is suffering from cancer. His mother knows that a part of her wont be there anymore within few months. There is nothing she can do to stop this happen. There is no doctor she can go to and pay loads to save her only child. What she only knows is her son would leave her soon and she has to endure this. This lady only needs the strength to endure and make herself understand that his son no matter what would always remain with her. Her son could never be snatched away from her even though the physical presence would not be there. The strength to endure thus becomes the greatest necessity.
