Never Never Never Give Up

I wanted to take today to write about the determination to keep going.  I know this is a bit of a break from my normal fitness blogs, but it’s something I know I need a reminder of sometimes.

Yesterday morning I was with a group of people and there was an older gentleman giving some advice on when you hit those moments of failure.  He told the story of a woman who got a phone call saying that her son had a brain tumor.  In a panicked haste she raced to the hospital.  It was winter and the roads were not in good condition.  She hit black ice, rolled her car.  Her face had to be reconstructed and her back was broken, but she lived.

Her son because they found the tumor early, was able to undergo surgery, the tumor was removed and he recovered fully.

6 months later, the woman sunk in to depression and was in horrid pain and she decided to take her life.

She left behind a husband, her son and her other children who all will have to walk with that for the rest of their life.

After the gentleman finished this story he went on to say how sad it was that after only 6 months in this lady sunk into hopelessness. There are seasons of life, it’s pretty much like a roller coaster.  There will be really good times, and there will be really bad times, that’s just kind of the way life goes.  But time does heal.  The body can heal miraculously but it takes time, sometimes years from severe injuries, and the body can take sometimes a year or more to recover mentally.   But recovery will come.

You will have trouble in this life, but you get back up, you look to something bigger than yourself, and tell yourself you can and you will make it.  No situation is every hopeless.

Never, never, never give up.