Everyone Fights for What They LackBy Erick Rosado

By Erick Rosado

There is a quiet truth about the human condition that few dare to address, yet it moves societies, economies, art, ambition, and even war:everyone fights for what they lack.

The wealthy fight for meaning.The forgotten fight for recognition.The powerful fight for peace.The lonely fight for attention.The young fight for time;the old fight to recover it.

At the core of every pursuit lies a demand from the self to balance its missing pieces, like a puzzle designed by life where one grows only by noticing the emptiness within.

Lack is the Greatest Motivator

It is precisely scarcity that builds nations, ideologies, and revolutions.People do not rise from comfort — they rise from deficit.

A hungry mind devours knowledge.A wounded heart learns compassion or revenge.A dreamless soul borrows someone else's until it can forge its own.

Without lack, there is no curiosity.Without vulnerability, there is no courage.Without longing, there is no reason to move, push, suffer, or thrive.

The paradox is that what we lack is not a weakness — it is the engine of everything we become.

The Human Trade of Absence

Civilizations are driven by what they do not have:

• Tribes without fertile land become conquerors.

• Nations without safety build armies.

• Societies without identity invent mythology.

Scarcity is not merely economic; it is emotional, cultural, spiritual.

We chase love because we lack it.We chase wealth because we fear instability.We chase innovation because we lack satisfaction with reality as it stands.

Humanity is a marketplace of absences exchanging dreams in the currency of effort.

The Fight Never Ends — It Evolves

The tragedy and beauty of this truth is that once we obtain what we fought for, the battle relocates.

The poor man who fought for money now fights to protect it.The shy child who fought for confidence now fights the arrogance growing in the mirror.The empire that fought for land now fights to sustain peace and prevent rebellion.

Victory exposes new weaknesses — not to punish us, but to keep us alive.Comfort is the silent killer; struggle is the silent sculptor.

What We Lack Shapes What We Offer

Some turn their trauma into tyranny.Others turn their trauma into wisdom.The deciding factor is not what they lacked — but how they interpreted the fight.

The best innovators lacked tools.The best leaders lacked control.The best healers lacked safety.

The absence became contribution —because they transformed their fight into a gift instead of a wound.

So, What Are You Fighting For?

If everyone fights for what they lack, the greatest clarity you can gain is this:

Know your absence, and you will know your destiny.

Do you fight because you fear losing?Or because you believe in gaining?Do you fight to prove others wrong?Or to prove yourself capable?

The world is full of people swinging swords without knowing what beast they are trying to slay.

The wisest ones are not those with the most resources —but those who have defined their lack, embraced it, and weaponized it.