True Grit - Overcoming Obstacles

byFrankB44

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8 years ago

Last year was brutal for me for several different reasons...........

I suffered from a one-two combination that knocked me down. A brutal divorce was followed by losing my source of income through job elimination.

That was enough to knock out a lot of people, but my situation was made worse by the fact that, fair or not, people in my age group are nearly unemployable.

Down and out, right?

Then I stumbled across WA, and the WA community. I am grateful for that.

Today, this first day of the new year 2018, two seemingly small things happened. First, another WA member, CarlJDill, posted about not giving up because of a perceived failure. I responded with what my father used to say. "The measure of a man is not in how many times he gets knocked down, but how many times he gets back up." I shared that with Carl and anyone who read his post.

Ten minutes later, I read a post from DEversley titled "Who is determined to succeed?" His post contained a link to a video of a small boy trying so hard, and so determined to get up the steps to a slide.

The little boy had no arms and no legs, but he would not give up! One laborious step at a time, he kept climbing those steps. He showed the world his "grit", his determination that despite the tremendous obstacles facing him, he would succeed.

https://drive.google.com/open?...

Compared to that little boy, I don't really have any challenges to overcome.

"I pitied myself because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet."

My goal for 2018 is to display just one-tenth of that little boy's "True Grit".

Will you?

Frank