<div class="floatright">(https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZucIT.png)</div><div class="floatleft"><div align="center">(https://i.imgur.com/FB3zljN.gif)<br/><strong><acronym title="Hunter/Huntress">Giomanach</acronym><br/>(30/09/2019)<br/>(10:00 AM)</strong></div></div><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_u">Life Without Struggle Isn't Life</span></div><br/>For far too long the wizarding community has relied on magic in order to survive. There are many witches, wizards, and even wix like myself who have become so reliant on magic that they can barely function in life without it. We have forgotten what it means to struggle. Truly struggle. A dark lord once said<tt class="bbc_tt">"Magic blooms only in rare souls"</tt>. It also blooms in the lazy and weak minded. Those who look for a life of comfort and ease. To make it through life content with the pleasures and ease that it provides for us. The list of things magic can't do for us can fit on a post-it note for Merlin's sake.<br/><br/>It's time to wake up!<br/><br/>There was a time when people were convinced that the old ways of living in secrecy was what made us live in the shadows. So many were convinced of this that war started. It tore our people apart and made the divide between us and the No-Maj greater than ever. Whatever your views on the man who said these things is, you cannot deny that he was right...in a way. I'm not talking war. I'm not taking enslavement of the No-Maj. Nor am I even talking about revealing ourselves fully to the non-magical world. What I'm saying is that we are still living in the old ways. We're letting the ease of our magic control us.<br/><br/>It's time to struggle!<br/><br/>We need to embrace struggle. It leads to our growth and our power. Struggle leads to painful experiences that teach us how to grow. This is not to say that struggle is a good thing. It was painful and it exhausts. It saps everything you have and it makes you wonder if the ease of another way wouldn't be better. It is not better. Your struggles will allow you to metamorphasize into a powerful individual. A being that allows you to control the shape of your life. With the Triwizard Tournament right in front of us, it is our chance to embrace the struggles of our lives and face them head on. Magic will never be the answer to everything. Break free of the old ways and do something for yourself.<br/><br/>Lay down your wands for just one day and see what happens.<br/><br/><em>“Magic blooms only in rare souls. Still, we must skulk in the shadows. But the old ways serve us no longer.” ― Gellert Grindelwald</em><br/><br/><div style="text-align: right;">-<acronym title="Hunter/Huntress">Giomanach</acronym></div>