New Delhi, July 26 -- "Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot." - William Hazlitt

English essayist William Hazlitt wrote this quote as one of the most honest essayists in the English language. He wrote it because it was uncomfortable but true. The sentence does not offer resolution. It offers recognition. And for many people, being recognised accurately in their struggle is more useful than being offered a comfort that does not hold up under examination.

The quote describes the fundamental condition of human ambition. People do not primarily strive toward what they already are. They strive toward what they are not yet. They want to become a better version, a more capable version, a version that can ...