NEVER QUIT AND NEVER GIVE UP

NEVER QUIT AND NEVER GIVE UP 

In closing, I wanted to write that if you intended to become something great, then become engrossed in it. submerse yourself in the arms of it, and embrace all of the love and pain that will come with realizing whatever dream you may have for your life.

There will be times of agony that make you question if you really want to go on; if you want to continue. Your desire will wane at times, you will wonder if you can take another fall. Remember that falling is not failing. We all fall. We only fail when we no longer desire to stand again. It is then that the desire to quit becomes greater than the desire to overcome, to achieve, to succeed. That is what failure is. 

Failure is not missing a lift, or underperforming when we truly emptied ourselves into something. That is merely falling. And falling is perfectly acceptable. In fact, it is during our fall that we learn so much more about who we are than during our successes. It is during that time that our will and mettle is tested. If we allow it, this will strengthen us, harden us, enable us to be better than we were before the fall.

If we allow it, it can also break us entirely. Ultimately, it is the choice of the fallen to decide those things.

Do I stand, and walk again? Or do I sit here, and embrace being conquered?

Be strong….not conquered.