I am saddened by the fact that some people choose to give up on themselves, on their lives, on finding happiness etc. I've seen people give up on their goal of losing weight because the road gets too tough, and they struggle with staying on track and so they throw their hands in the air and say "I give up" and they settle for mediocre in their lives and staying stuck right where they are. Forgive me, but I just want to shake them and say "Are you kidding me??!!!" It's too hard so I'm not going to try? You HAVE to try!
I have went to a funerals of people who didn't want to live anymore. I've known people who never fully recover from an injury because it was too hard to continue therapy past what the Doctor ordered. I had a friend of a friend who was 56 and got cancer for the second time and decided she didn't want to face radiation and passed away. The cancer won. I've know people who said in their old age that they were tired and ready to go. I do understand that and I know people have their individual reasons, but it saddens me. I pray that when the last breath leaves my body that I am kicking and fighting to stay alive. We only get one chance to live this life and I want all of it!! Every last second I can get because I'll never have a chance to "try it again".
I've also heard of a story of a women who lost her left arm and leg in an automobile accident and through recovering from that ill fated day she came back stronger and healthier than ever. The rest of her body is in the best shape it's ever been in, in her life. She decided to fight!
It's a women who has faced cancer coming back 5 times and she has been through more chemo and radiation than a body should be able to withstand, but you know what, she's not giving up! She continues to move forward and work when she can and she has a mission in life and it propels her forward.
Then there was the lady I heard years back who had been beaten raped and left for dead who said, "they got one day of my life I will not let them affect much more than that. What I do with the rest of it defines me".
What is it that makes one person persevere and another throw in the towel? I think it's their belief and faith for one and next I think it's their attitude. If you decide that the fight is too hard to face and you won't make it.... you won't. But if you believe that no matter what faces you, that you will continue to fight with all that you have and some how some way you will make it..... you will - I believe that!! I believe that the human spirit is amazing and that the will to live is STRONGER than we even know and for those who fight it has power beyond belief.
But you have to want it. And it goes deeper than wanting to live. We may never face those kinds of odds. But we do face everyday challenges and trials and how we choose to face those can define our life. If we always pick ourselves up by our boot straps and trudge forward no matter what we are facing we will choose to do that when the rubber hits the road and we HAVE to to survive. It's an attitude that you get from doing it over and over again. I urge you that you are worth the fight!!! You deserve your best effort. In making your eating choices so that you can live a healthy lifestyle and live a longer happier life. You have to keep getting in the gym and picking up the weights to gain the muscle you want to see and you can't cover it up with fat from bad choices and be happy about it. If you want a better life, you have to go after it. You can't sit and wait for it to come to you. You deserve ALL you desire! Have the tenacity to DO what it is you want to do. Be Bold, be tough and never see yourself quit. If you don't do it now, you won't do it when your life is on the line. You will fight with all your might and defy the odds to overcome whatever it is that is standing in your way. Mark my words I will continue to fight, to set my schedule to pursue my passions, to keep trying even when others tell me I can't because they do not know my spirit, I get to decide and I am deciding to be a winner and continue to fight for what I want out of life and that includes a good long life.
Go out and make it happen. Have a bull dog mentality... when you decide you want something, dig your teeth in and don't let go! And if you fail, bravo! At least you tried and I guarantee you will be better for it by trying than to never have given it your best effort. You decide.
