No degree of hopelessness or difficulty, in any measure, should ever be a reason to even think about giving up. Never. Nothing that happens on the outside could ever make me consider surrender. Either I achieve what I want, or I re-examine my values, realize I don't actually need this, and walk away. That's it, period. No alternatives.
There's no such thing as: you wanted something, it got hard along the way, you started looking for someone to blame, found someone's shadow to hide behind, and now — oh look — "nope, not for me."
Strength is a lighthouse from which a lifeline has been thrown. The lighthouse cannot come to you. Only you, gripping that rope, pushing through the storms, thunder and waves, can pull yourself closer to it.
Having discovered some source of strength in this life, the vast majority of people think they've now absorbed it. Nothing of the sort. You saw a strong person, a strong thought, or a strong act, you got inspired, you understand you now need to live the same way. But it doesn't work like that — like he's now filed away in your head and belongs to you. No. You just now know about the fact that such a way of being exists. A lifeline has been thrown to you. And now the choice is yours whether you grab it or not.
And that's why some things in life need to be revisited, reread, and relistened to. Seeing something useful for yourself once doesn't mean it's stuck with you. Big results are always born from the strength of small actions in constant repetition.
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