In the pursuit of your dreams, I’m sure there are times where you wonder if you’ll ever get where you want to be. Where you wonder if you’ll succeed at what you’re tackling. Where you find yourself asking if it will all be worth it. Times where you are tempted to give up. Well, you’re not alone. I go through times where I feel like I’m treading water to stay afloat but being so tired that I feel like letting go and just drowning. I sometimes feel like Jack in the Titanic, instead of Rose who survives. For those times, what keeps you going? What makes you believe you’ll achieve what you’ve set your mind to. What makes you sing another song, write another book, start another business or continue to do what you believe you should be doing with your life?
For the most part I believe because I have faith that God will get me where I want to be. On some days though, I only believe because I have no choice but to believe. If I don’t believe it means that all my hurts, my disappointments, my pain will have been for nothing. I am in the arena bleeding and walking away now will mean all those jabs I’ve taken so far were for nothing. I have to stay in because I want what I’ve gone through so far to mean something, to have been worth it.
Although it means I may take more cuts and stabs, it’s nothing I haven’t already experienced and survived. I’ve told myself I’d rather die in the arena than not get to see what’s waiting for me when I finally conquer. Being the dreamer that I am and looking at what my future looks like, I’m glad I’m staying in the arena. I wouldn’t have it any other way. Stay with me, let’s not give up. We can do it!
