Vision: The Old Boxer

Vision:  The Old Boxer

9^th March 2014

I saw an old boxer. He looked demoralized, and battle weary; he did not want to fight anymore. He simply wanted to give up, and retire from life. This fighter had been ready to hang up his boots but an old opponent challenged him back into the ring with threats and jeering.

The warrior had no will to fight and his opponent well knew it, which is why he had pressured the old fighter into one last match in which the adversary felt assured of an easy victory.

This old foe had created pressing circumstances for the warrior, and had continuously mocked, ridiculed, and taunted him;  life had become so intolerable that the old fighter was almost ready to surrender and not fight any further for his long contended rights.

The opponent was delighted that such was the condition of the fighter, but now he wanted to have this old warrior come into the ring, in public, and be humiliated before all, so that others could see and fear, and never  even think to contend on any matter, against so formidable an adversary such as him.

The day of the big fight arrived. The stadium was filled with people who had come to cheer the old warrior on. As the boxer stood in the "square circle", he heard the crescendo of cheers. He could not see their faces, but knew that these special spectators were in the stadium to encourage him not to give up.

The fighter appreciated the encouragement given to him by these nameless faceless spectators; but he felt that he could never get them to understand that all his efforts to fight this formidable opponent had failed. He had come to the end of himself. All his energies were drained. He only agreed to come into the ring, because he simply wanted to surrender; to admit defeat, and walk out of the ring with as much of his body intact as he could. The opponent was making allegations, and claiming territory that rightfully belonged to the old boxer. In all these years, the fighter who had enjoyed many small victories had not been able to defeat this enemy in this particular area of his life. Now in the presence of all, he planned to give up, to yield, to let go.

He  intended to fall down on the very first blow from the opponent.