Resiliency Amazes Me

I often say "it could be worse" because it's true. Things could, in fact, be worse. If you're alive, you could be dead. If you're suffering from an illness, said illness could be incurable. I could go on, but you get the point (and you've probably read the entry that talks about this at length).

I look at people who are really going through some living nightmare (compared to what ever I may be going through) and somehow still manage to pull through. Or, at the very least, they do not get so discouraged by their present situation that they sabotage themselves and everything they've ever worked for by giving into despair and their weaknesses.

It amazes me how they can still go in day and day out with the same steadfast determination and forward momentum. Their chasing something and are not letting anything get in their way. They go down life's cruel, cracked road, undeterred by the weight of the surrounding world. Undeterred by poorly scribbled metaphors. Or they give off that illusion of being undeterred because if one were to show cracks in their foundation, they inadvertently throw open the doors for actual crumbling and allow doubt to flood in and ruin everything. And we know that can have disastrous consequences. With or without bad metaphors.

These are the kinds of people that I tend to look up to and from whom I draw inspiration of sorts. The ones who can withstand being horsewhipped and still have the energy to juggle chainsaws. Or if I were to put it in a less ridiculous analogy: the single parent who works in a factory performing all sorts of back-breaking tasks all day and comes home weary but still summons some sort of energy to feed and help their kid(s) with their homework. The ones who can still take being crushed by the same boulder day in and day out. And shrug it off because they know that there are things greater than them. They recognize this and don't let it go to their heads, nor do they let this misguide them or distract them from whatever it is they are doing: taking care of their family, taking care of business, doing what needs to be done, etc.

Those are the people for whom I have great respect and who continue to amaze me.