"For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
- John Greenleaf Whittier
There are few things more demoralizing in life than genuine regret. As humans, we're going to make mistakes, we're going to miss amazing opportunities and we're going to fail...a lot. Unfortunately we tend to relive that recent failure or life changing opportunity we didn't seize instead of focusing on the more relevant inspiring quality most of us possess - an Indomitable Spirit. As humans, we're famous for blaming ourselves and fretting over events we cannot change BUT.... we continue on nonetheless.
How many times have we fallen in love and gotten hurt? Many would answer "too many" but we still remain hopeful and try again. What is our response to someone telling us we CANNOT do something? We have a natural unyielding nature that answers almost any challenge; perseverance that struggles through failure and past defeat. Actually the definition of perseverance says it all: steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.
Whether you like it or not - this is us. We may fail, we may make foolish choices and we may suffer defeat and get knocked down many times in life but... we always get back up. We continue to hope and we always keep trying - endeavouring to do better.
Live, Love and Persevere
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