What are You Willing to Fight for?

What is the definition of a fighter?
Can one be considered a fighter if they've never encountered a battle?
If they have never had something of value at risk of being taken away from them?

Some days i conquer the battles but they leave me exhausted, they produce tears, and leave battle scars. On one particular day I felt a sense of despair but in trying to capture the lesson of that particular day these words echoed in the back of my mind over and over: "Keep fighting, keep fighting, keep fighting."

I don't know why struggles occur, I don't know why people and things we love slip away.
I don't know why the deepest darkest passions and desires of our hearts, seem at times, to go unfulfilled.
I don't know why life seems to tease us by bringing those things so close and then vanishing before we can embrace them.
What I do know though is that the fight, the battle, is for the things we can't and wont let go of. The fight is for the things that keep us waking up each morning, striving for each day, and hoping for each night.

Defend your dreams, your passions, desires; fight for those things that define your existence and your soul.
Never Ever Give Up when times get hard because it is the struggle that defines the fighter.

Let go of the things that weigh you down and hold you back--sometimes forever, sometimes for a few months, and sometimes just for a day. There has to be sacrifices in training, in order to gain something, another has to be lost--it's part of the process, the journey of life. It is the moments that seem the hardest, when we feel we have nothing left to give, that the return is most rewarding. God promises to not give us more then we can handle but He also knows that we are capable of more then we give ourselves credit for. To train ourselves into the condition we need to be in to continue to fight is not for the faint of heart, it is not for the one that's not willing to lose it all for the sake of the goal. Our fight is not aimless, it is to defend who we are, who God made us to be.

The Goal is to find what it is in this life that wont let go of us as we hold on to it.