This is way too hard; maybe I should give up.
Sometimes, when you’re pursuing your dream, the going gets tough. When this happens, it’s very tempting to say something like, “This is way too hard; maybe I should give up.” The problem with giving up is that achieving your dream might be just around the corner, but you’ll never know if you throw in the towel. For example, let’s look at Gabby Douglas, who recently made history by becoming the first African-American to win the women’s gymnastics all-around in the recent Summer Olympics. The going got tough for her because she received so much racial mistreatment at the gym where she was training near her home in Virginia. So she moved to Iowa, at the age of 14, to get away the situation. Six months before the Olympics, she was very homesick and talked to the host father she was staying with about going home. His comment to her was, “If you decide to go home, you’re not coming back.” So she decided to hang in there and today, six months later, she’s on top of the world.
Its only natural for Gabby to have been homesick but tough love of situations for all young teens is not only important, its critical; as this has set her path for the rest of her life. She is an awesome young lady and her smile and her eyes portray the strength and her passion of her committment. Beautiful young lady!!!!!
Dear T Gannon,
Thank you so much for your comments. You’re right, Gabby is an awesome young lady. All the best to you. Ross
Ross,
Thanks for this Reminder, I am about to give up my dream to becoming an Ed.D. Hope I can hang up till the end a year from now!
Dear Martha,
Please hang in there a little longer. Doing so will lead to a lot of good things that you will have otherwise missed out on. Hanging in there is the one thing that changed my life. Whenever I came to a crossroads where I wasn’t sure if I could go on, I thought of this quote from Theodore Roosevelt, “Far better is is to dare mighty things then to take rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much. For they live in that gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” I wish you nothing but the best. Ross