Life is spent in meeting challenges. To meet them efficiently is the game. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Meet them we must: there is no choice. If you meet them with courage and faith in yourself, you win; if you neglect to be dynamic and diligent all the time, and sulk, or try to avoid meeting them, they will, with merciless aggressiveness, roll on and crush you in their blind fury.
This is the law of life. Meet them we must. You may win here and may lose there. It becomes a sport, exhausting but exhilarating no doubt, and one can enjoy it all if it is taken as a lifelong sport. In order to be on the field of life’s sport, you must have a mind full of reserve energy and inexhaustible inner stamina.
An exhausted and fatigued sick mind gets hit by situations, crushed by problems, and mercilessly tortured by a powerful and tyrannical life. This is not because the outer life has the strength to persecute you, but you are too weak and so allow life to play havoc upon you.
In order to stick to our convictions, we need spiritual energy to nurture and nourish our fatigued morale. This inner energy welling up in a well-integrated personality is called fortitude or forbearance.