Walking Away From a Challenge is Easy
Life’s Turning Points
Have you ever been in a situation where you had felt absolutely defeated from one of life’s challenging moments? Did you feel the pain of what you were facing just too difficult to endure? Did you figure that walking away was going to be easier than the pain of keeping on? When people face extreme challenges in life, the easy thing for them to do is walk away and quit. No one likes to face trials and tribulations in life. No one likes to endure pain and suffering if they don’t have to. Difficulties make average people quit when they face life’s turning points.
Walking away from something is usually the easy thing to do? The difficulties and pain that people experience often clouds their judgement. When people are faced with the difficult question of whether they should quit or whether they should proceed, they fail to realize that this could be the turning point of their lives. You see when life is dark, it becomes difficult to see the light. It is during these dark times when stars shine the brightest. People often fail to realize that they are at a turning point in their lives. They fail to realize that their decision could either make their lives or it could break their lives. No one has ever achieved great success in their lives without finding themselves on the verge of walking away and quitting. No one has ever been successful without experiencing the trials and tribulations of failure. It was during these turning points that separates the winners from the losers and the achievers from the failures.
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Napoleon Hill said, “One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.” Failure is only permanent when you have accepted it as permanent. A little more perseverance, a little more determination, and belief in your abilities is what usually separates total failure from the glory of success.
If you are at a turning point in your life, walking away may seem like the easy thing to do. It also might seem like the logical thing to do at the moment because you think that your pain will not last that long. However, walking away doesn’t come for free. Walking away often comes with the scars to your soul that quitting brings. Walking away also brings the everlasting doubt of what could’ve been if you had just persevered a little longer. Napoleon Bonaparte “Victory belongs to the most persevering.” When you find yourself at one of life’s defining moments, think long and hard at what you are about to do because you will have to live with the consequences forever. Quitting something you love, something that you’ve dreamed about will scar you forever. Remember that pleasure is on the other side of pain. Sometimes the most painful things in your life can end up being the most rewarding things in your life. Quitters never win, and winners never quit. When you face life’s toughest moments, you answer with your unstoppable resolve. You persevere until you succeed because the greatest things in life often come with the cost of your blood, sweat, and tears. Quitting might come with temporary pain, but the scar to your soul will never go away. I thing that I will promise you is that when you do overcome your adversity and succeed, the reward will totally eclipse the pain it cost you to make it happen.
Hooman Hamzehloui 2009
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