The best way to not give up is to not have an option

The most courageous people in life are also those who don’t have a choice.  Their values created for them a position where they could do only one thing: march, as they have, and keep marching, in the right direction.

It’s the same the world over, and in any time you care to choose—in wartime and in peacetime, in plenty and in want—there are always situations where a person of principle will find they can go only one way.

There are people who wake up every day not knowing how they’ll make it through.  Perhaps we’ve all been there?

There are people today who know very well they’ll encounter situations that will completely trigger and overwhelm them.  Perhaps we identify?

There are times when we arrive at déjà vu and wonder if we’ll make it through—even though we always have, albeit on a wing and a prayer.  Surely we know what this is about?

The best way to not give up is to not give ourselves the option; that is, to strive by faith, against the moment’s experience of sheer fright, that by moving forward against what our heart says, things will turn out.  For our good.  That we’ll survive.  Again.

Even when we’ve found ourselves having taken the option to bow out because we’ve got nothing left, somehow we’ve found ourselves with a get-out clause to get us back into the option that takes us forward—even if we’ve been opted out for what seems forever.

It’s never too late to take the only option there is, which is to hope as if that’s all we’ve got.

Because all we have of hope is hope, and to hope upon hope is attractive when that’s all that will keep us afloat.  We can run on those vapours for a long time if we have to.

The best situation we can be in is one where we have no option but to keep going.  We have much more tenacity of strength than any of us realise.

I know you’re exhausted.  It’s not weakness, per se, it’s that you’ve been strong for a very long time.  Kudos to you!  Now, find rest where you can, but keep going.  Get supported.  Find people who give you life, and resolve to live with the life that they give you.