Life is like a bicycle; if you stop going, you start falling.
This is a funny quote that I saw at the door to the office of one of my friends some months back, and I see truism in it. When you stop making moves or when you stop trying, then that will mark the beginning of failure. But as long as you keep going, irrespective of how many challenges that you have encountered, then you are not a failure. Failure is simply a state of not trying again. There are many people that have failed in more attempts than you can ever imagine but they were not failures, because they were able to pull through and later succeed at it, you too can.
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People normally say this:
You have no idea what I am passing through.
Well, it should gladden your heart and even shimmer some rays of hope to you that, if you are passing through it, then you will come out very soon. Of course it is still better than being stagnated in it without the hopes of pulling through, so keep passing through it. It is a general belief and popularly said that when the end of the tunnel is reached, then there will be light. Well, that is good, because that will keep the person going. However, with the right motivation, you can still have light inside the tunnel and you will pass through the tunnel in a grand style. Life is almost basically a function of what you make out of it.
If you believe that life is hard, your actions will reflect it and life will eventually become hard for you. But if you believe that life will always get better, it will give you to required motivation to keep moving and then you will finally arrive at your desired destination. It is true that challenges may rise up once and again, but they are part of what make life worth living. It is by facing and overcoming the challenges that the worth and value of life become evident. If you will not quit at the sight of the challenges of life, and if you will not stop going and putting in your best, then success will be attained.
At a point in your life, when you weigh the options that you have left, you will know that it will be a better choice to stay strong because the other options will be like choosing between lesser evils. At that point, you will discover that you are unimaginably strong and you will be surprised at the kind of courage that you will muster to keep going. As long as success is the goal, then giving up is not part of the option. No matter what happens, one thing you have to resolve within you is to keep going. Even if you cannot fly, it should not be an excuse if you can run, so run. Even if you cannot run, you still do not have an excuse not to walk or even to crawl. But just keep going.
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The life's hurdles you think you are going through, there are a lot of people that have successfully gone through worse things. Just to let you know, challenges are not exclusively preserved for one person alone, so know that you are not the only one experiencing it, this is why you need to keep going. It is okay to feel like giving up and throwing in the towel, at least many others have felt the same way. But if your desire to succeed is stronger than your feelings to give up, then you will have the courage to continue.
You may not have been to where you had intended to and you may not have arrived at your desired destination, but if you look back at where you started from, you will understand that you are making reasonable progress. You do not need anyone's validation to know that you are making progress. As long as you have not quitted, then it is never over yet and anything can still happen. In conclusion, it is worth noting that success only stops when you stop trying.
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