Overcoming
August 11th, 2016
Do not compare yourself to others or the goals of others. See what you can do and focus on what you can do. Push yourself to the limits: key, push yourself. Life is hard and life can suck for everyone. Conceptualize it right. Everyone is struggling. Have fun with it. Embrace the struggle. Do it how you need to do it. Focus on the purpose behind the actions. Focus on the process. Focus on doing it right. Take the time you need to get it right. Doing it right is going to look different for everyone. Do it how you need to. If it takes you longer, more effort, more tears, and more mistakes - good. That is what you need. Do what you need to do to get it right.
Do not get caught up in how everyone else is doing it; most likely they are just putting up a facade anyway - they are struggling just like you. Take solace in the fact that you will not give up. Remain tenacious. Be hungry for it and find joy in the insanity. Laugh and be merry and be ferocious. Compete against yourself and appreciate the struggle others are going through. In the end you may miss a reward or any recognition. You have still persevered and you still did not give up. You are only a failure when you let yourself fail: when you settle for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. Stay focused, believe, and embrace the pain and struggle. It is all about your mentality; it is how you conceptualize it. Pain is not weakness, wanting to give up is not weakness: they both show you are capable and willing to push yourself past your limits. Doubt only comes when you are pushing yourself. Jump into it and find your glory. It is a beautiful madness - a beautiful struggle.
You are not broken, or lesser, or inferior because you struggle. There is harmony and beauty in struggle. Do not put yourself down because you struggle. Raise yourself up and know that you are persevering. Love, hate, or feel however you want towards the struggle, but embrace it and go through it. You are not incapable because you struggle.
© 2016 Austin Lochan Dodd