What makes you...
One day I'm going to have an entirely original idea. Today is not that day.
"Whatever your dream is, there is no scenario where it is not realized unless along the way you've decided to give up." - Mr. Azure, dreamupagain.blogspot.com
What makes you give up?
I was asked this question in reference to running track races. When asked in the spring of my junior year of high school, I said something that I pretty much still agree with: because there's a kind of hurt while you're running that feels really good - and then there's just the miserable kind and I don't like running through that.
What about other aspects of life? What about academics? Relationships? Any sort of challenge you set yourself to? What about... your dreams?
What makes you give up?
There's a sort of academic stress that feels really good - when you're in the groove, learning something interesting or something clicks with your mind because you've done all of the background work to make it easy. But then there's the sort that goes with the panic after you've missed a couple classes and a couple assignments that makes it that much harder to pick up the textbook, to put the pen to paper, to make the effort - so you give up.
What makes you give up?
When you were full of butterflies - but they flew away. When you were full of sunshine - but it darkened. When it went from exciting hope to worry and ennui about the future and decisions and it all became rather overwhelming and you didn't know where you were going or how you happened to get to where you were. And all you want to do is run.
What makes you give up?
Time, always pushing you forward. Deadlines gone by. Excuses. Complaints, even though you tell yourself not to, and disappointment when you do anyway. Feeling too constrained because you took too much advantage of previous lack of constraint.
What makes you keep on?
What makes you push farther?
What's your source?
"...but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint."
Easy to hear, hard to feel - but press on, warrior. Rest in God, and don't ever give up.
"Whatever your dream is, there is no scenario where it is not realized unless along the way you've decided to give up." - Mr. Azure, dreamupagain.blogspot.com
What makes you give up?
I was asked this question in reference to running track races. When asked in the spring of my junior year of high school, I said something that I pretty much still agree with: because there's a kind of hurt while you're running that feels really good - and then there's just the miserable kind and I don't like running through that.
What about other aspects of life? What about academics? Relationships? Any sort of challenge you set yourself to? What about... your dreams?
What makes you give up?
There's a sort of academic stress that feels really good - when you're in the groove, learning something interesting or something clicks with your mind because you've done all of the background work to make it easy. But then there's the sort that goes with the panic after you've missed a couple classes and a couple assignments that makes it that much harder to pick up the textbook, to put the pen to paper, to make the effort - so you give up.
What makes you give up?
When you were full of butterflies - but they flew away. When you were full of sunshine - but it darkened. When it went from exciting hope to worry and ennui about the future and decisions and it all became rather overwhelming and you didn't know where you were going or how you happened to get to where you were. And all you want to do is run.
What makes you give up?
Time, always pushing you forward. Deadlines gone by. Excuses. Complaints, even though you tell yourself not to, and disappointment when you do anyway. Feeling too constrained because you took too much advantage of previous lack of constraint.
What makes you keep on?
What makes you push farther?
What's your source?
"...but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint."
Easy to hear, hard to feel - but press on, warrior. Rest in God, and don't ever give up.
"But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint."
ReplyDeleteThis is SO good! Consider with me if you will, how an eagle actually flies. Eagles SOAR, they can be sitting up on top of a tree and with one single flap they are lifted into the air and glide on that wind. Eagles in fact often are found rising on thermal currents that lift them upwards, further alleviating the need to flap their wings. So when you soar with God, with Jesus, you don't have to worry about flapping your wings as much, you can simply glide, rise, soar... to higher heights than you could ever reach on your own flapping (and if you did, you'd be gosh darn tired by the time you got there!).
Indeed. Press on, Warrior(s)!