13/08/2016
Take a moment and think back to a time when nothing
worked for you, a time when all you knew was a failure in
anything. Maybe you failed at what you got yourself into,
you failed at love, failed at being a dad, mother, sister,
brother, friend or co-worker. Think back to that time
you sat down alone and on reflecting on your failure,
maybe you felt pain. You felt sad because you failed to
deliver on some critical goal. You felt hurt because
without knowing you inflicted pain or because somebody
was hard on you. I believe there is such a time in
everyone's life when something goes wrong.
Some people recover from such situations, yet others
don't. As we've learned along the way; Life is rhythmic.
It has its highs and lows. Sometimes it goes as we want,
we achieve everything, we feel loved and appreciated,
and everything about life is good. Other times it doesn't
work as we want. We fail at some things, and we get
rejected. At times feel even if we do our best to make a
situation better; our efforts are not equally rewarded.
We end up losing important things and people along the
way.
It takes a fighting spirit to survive through those highs
and lows without breaking or getting overwhelmed by the
situations. How many times have you managed to survive
through such moments?
When something never works as you expected, what do you
do? I know a friend who through all odds in his
afflictions managed to pull through and delivered on
something he had failed at more than five times. I also
know of a friend who never recovered from being
rejected because she never was the person someone
expected her to be. When I asked my friend, "What made
you do something that you failed at over and over again
without giving up?"
He answered, " That time when I fail, I know am getting
closer to achieving it. If I stopped at my first failure or
fourth failure, that shows that I never wanted to deliver
on my goal. With the effort I put into it, I couldn't just
deny myself its reward. My time that I put into what I
did was significant, and I couldn't just sit and let it go
down the drain. With every attempt, I knew I was getting
there. With every failure, I knew I was going to not only
achieve it but do it outstandingly."
I loved his spirit and today I felt like sharing it with you.
It doesn't matter how many attempts you made. It
doesn't matter how less someone thought of you for
doing it over and over again. It doesn't matter if you are
too proud to go back at it and make it right. But if
that's what you want, if that's what you feel like doing,
what harm is there in going after it?
Fight the fear of trying again, let yourself get to being
happy for achieving what you want. Let the passion you
have for it take you through all odds unto it.
Yeah, in the highs and lows of life you can still live
through them all and drive the life you want out of
them. Day by day, a sailor learns how to sail out in the
storm, how to cope with the rough waters and high waves
coming his way without being tossed. He knows he has to
reach safely to his destination, and he never rests until
he does exactly that. With a sailor's spirit, in our highs
and lows of life, we can learn how to survive and live
through life without losing ourselves along the way. If we
are conscious all the way; aware of the situations we get
ourselves into, we can plan and work towards what we
want to achieve.
That time the going gets tough, make a point to
remember that; "This challenge just like ones that came
before will pass. I will pull through, and I will achieve
what I want."
