everyday battles

"you fight the battles humanity must win, every generation, in order to stay human. Do you understand?"

Chiron 

The sea of Monsters

I kinda understand what Chiron is saying. Percy is part god and part human. he is affected by both and he affects both. Although the Greek gods exist the way it affects Percy is not uncommon. I know the way my parents want something for me affects me. I am not sure what I want and that affects me in a way. A lot of people who come from other countries are also affected that way. They want to fit in so they abandon their culture because if people made fun of them it would affect their self esteem. There are things in life that will affect us those are our "battles". It may be culture or something else but we are always affected by the things that happen everyday. 

I am not sure of what i want in life. and that affects me in a big way. My mom want me to go to a specialized high school and that also affects me. the future is unclear and we don't know what we really want. these are the battles we fight everyday. the unease and self doubts we have are our internal battles. the future is also another battle. although we don't fight big dramatic battles for humanity we do fight battles that are important for humanity. 

In the end we have to fight ourselves. we have to fight the unease and self doubts the way Percy fights Luke and monsters. like Chiron said the monsters don't really die and always come back. Heroes like Percy always keep them at bay and we have to do the same things. our doubts are our "monsters" and we have to keep them at bay because they never die as well and will always come back. that is the life we live.