There are challenges in life that knock us to our knees and beg for us to give up. What you do in these moments defines how your future will unfold. For example you may be studying or working hard towards a certain achievement, but something disastrous happens in your family. There are plenty of reasons that can justify not continuing on your path to success.
If you are working towards unlocking the door towards a certain job and your brother or sister dies. This is reason enough for you to quit and attempt to survive the moment. There is no shame in doing this. Yet you can also think whether or not that would have been what they wanted. Obviously you will take a step back and rethink your life choices. But when it happened to me I decided to not give up and continue no matter what crossed my path. As long as you are breathing you can still go for it, you may have to adapt and switch things around.
In the end, it’s a mental maturity to let your best come out. – Lindsey Vonn
This article is not meant to point fingers at anyone. My personal situation allowed to continue while some goals like health being dialed down a bit for some time. It’s rather important to know there is hope and you can find motivation in yourself to keep going. Manage to continue and you will have no regrets later in life. People will applaud you for your hard work but it will show to yourself that you are capable of beating anything heading your way. You will have nothing in your life that gives you more pleasure knowing that despite all the hardship you managed to push through. It may take you more time because you need more time to recover, but you will get there.
The most difficult step to take is the first one. When something bad happens you are thinking about everything, the easiest is to give up. But what do you gain from giving up, except for acknowledging that when things look impossible you know you can step away? Stay determined, improve your mental strength by attempting to take just one more step, another one and another one. Before you realise you have gone through obtaining your goal and have a story to tell and to motivate others to do the same. Do it for your future and for the people around you. How you react now will determine how your future will look like.