I understand why people take on difficult struggles.

Challenges that are sure to bring frustration.

That do not feel fair.

A chance of victory but very small.

Against those that do not have your best interests in mind.

Though they should.

***

Everything was stacked against me.

Loopholes I did not know used.

No care put forward when I needed them to.

Tears shed and hair pulled from my head in frustration.

Knowing that they wanted me to give up.

Knowing that they would stall as long as possible.

***

I was worried that I might fail.

All the effort going absolutely nowhere.

More hopes distroyed without a lack of trying.

A wall that I was just hitting my head against for no reason.

Only hurting myself in the process.

My own blood and effort the only result.

***

But then victory came.

I won and understood the truth of the struggle.

That sometimes slamming my head against a wall might create a door.

A way forward for myself and others.

That they might not have to struggle as hard as I did.

And it made the struggle all the sweeter.