Daily Mood Quote
Day 62 – July 5, 2011
“Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.”
~Unknown
Sometimes you can get sick and tired of the curve balls life throws at you. That is especially true when you feel you no longer have the strength to try to hit them out of the park. Not that I have ever actually hit one out... a few foul balls, a pop out and maybe a single every once in a while. Small successes, but never the home run (yes there will be sports metaphors today-they, just apply).There have been so many times when you do get on base and someone else lets you down. A parent, a spouse, a child, an employer (especially the employers), a doctor, an even the weather man who can't, despite “advanced” doppler technology, ever seem to get it right from one day to the next. I am finding that as I get older, it is all right to get angry about the letdowns. However it is not all right to act out on that anger. That's how people quickly go from bad to worse.
It's important to understand that these life situations are not always through the calculating efforts of others, but simply situations out of our and their control, even the employers. Like in sports, bad bounces and curve balls are often unpredictable...things just happen. When they happen, how we respond to them is what defines us. We can get angry and we can feel the disappointment. That's all an important part of the human experience, it's how we learn about ourselves. But, we must continue stepping up to the plate and counting on others to help us win. Life is a team sport. I wish I had understood that earlier in life. It would have made things easier to deal with. Success is most often an accident of time and opportunity (it really is) and it doesn't define a person. How a person responds to the dropped balls and missed swings of life is where a person hangs his/her hat, and what other people really see. If you give up on yourself and others...well there is no chance of success, ever. That's just the way it is.
Giving up and giving up on people seems like the easy way out, and it can be tempting when the situation is challenging, but it's going in the wrong direction. I understand disappointment as many of us do. But, shutting people out, becoming a hermit and closing yourself off to the world, because you are angry, hurt or disappointed is unhealthy and almost guarantees failure. As much as I hate this phrase because it is a cliche “You must pick yourself up, dust yourself off and begin again.” The alternative is loneliness, unhappiness and no success.
In the movie Galaxy Quest Jason Nesmith (Tim Allen) as Commander Taggert (you'll have to see it to understand) puts it more succinctly “...This fine ship, this fine crew. Never give up... and never surrender.” The point is, without the crew (those who assist him) success is not possible. It's a team effort that succeeds.
Don't give up on each other and don't give up on other people, somewhere there is someone who will see the value of your gifts.
“Who” and “what” will you believe in today?
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