Project 366 / 259 — Yin, Yang and perseverance

My Dad once told me that one bad day doesn’t make a bad week, one bad week doesn’t make a bad month and one bad month doesn’t make a bad year. There’s not much he taught me during my life but this seems to be the one of the things that has stuck.

The problem with life is that everyone else is trying to fool you into thinking that theirs is perfect. But the truth is that everyone is fighting their own battles. It could be insecurity, depression, stress, a fear of rejection, failure or loss, it could be any number of things and they could be minor or major.

But just as we all have great days; days when we’re feeling on top of the world, when you have the midas touch and you can’t help but win all day long — you’re also going to have days when everything you touch turns to shit, where everything goes wrong and you question literally everything you’re doing, have done and are planning to do.

To every yin, there’s a yang.

But that’s life. The best solution is to work through it and live to fight another day. Don’t quit just because the going got tough and because it didn’t go your own way. If it was all easy for you then the rewards wouldn’t taste so great. Get back up, dust yourself down and get back on that horse.

As Rocky Balboa once said “It’s not about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward”.

No matter how bad things have gotten and no matter how hard things are you can take refuge in one thing — you’ve always survived. Quitters never win and winners never quit.