If I remember right, it was the Latin poet Ovid who said: "The greatest challenge that is better than win the war is win the peace." He was clearly referring to such a tumultuous time as the birth of the Roman Empire of Octavian Augustus, but I have a feeling that these words might be applied to our life as well. We, too, always try to win a war, don't we? When we want to prove our point, when we are judging others, when we defend ourselves, when we struggle to progress in our career, when we need to prove our worth, when we want to show the world that we are "better" than... We fight, often secretly - just inside our own "self" - and suffer to achieve our goal. Then, when our desire is fulfilled, when we "have won" (i.e. succeeded in proving our point, proved that "the others" were wrong etc...), what do we do? Do we feel fulfilled? Do we stop fighting? Do we enjoy our "victory"? Hardly. As the much celebrated "Pax Romana" did not last long and wars started all over again, also in our own soul peace is not maintained for long.
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