What keeps you going? How do you go on when you know it may never get any better than this?
Hope. As corny as that sounds, it’s true. It’s very rare that you find a person who’s life is absolutely nothing but despair, or total happiness. Life has a way of fluctuating and changing without you even lifting a finger to help it. But if you don’t even try to direct it on a course that you can live with, it will become oppressive. That attempt at driving your life forward can be hard, but it can also be rewarding.
Those clichés about ‘giving it your all’ or ‘never giving up’ and the like are clichés because people have used those thoughts and ideas to persist, strive, endure. The mere act of living through hard times is an act of perseverance. Now, I’m not talking about continuing on a path you know will lead to failure. I’m not suggesting that you take on an endeavor you know to be fool-hearty and just shlog through hoping it will all work out in the end. No, what I’m talking about is staying focused on your dreams, accepting your limitations, learning to deal with them and exploring new ways to achieve your goals.
Remember, life can and does change if you change the way you look at it. Striving for the ideal is motivational, comparing your success to the past is logical, and driving yourself to not give in to despair will help in your longevity. Perseverance isn’t just about not giving up, it’s about doing better with what you have, even if what you have is less than yesterday. Tomorrow can be better, you just have to give it your all.
You gotta believe you’re awesome to Be awesome.
