KEEP ON KEEPING ON

There is so much going on in my world, and it seems like there’s always something else to do, somewhere else to go. There are always some new skills I have to learn. There are new ways of doing my job, there are pressures upon pressures, stresses upon stresses. There’s the house that won’t sell, the bills that won’t pay themselves. And, honestly, there are days when to want to say to hell with it all and just give up.

Why don’t I? It’s because I can’t. I have to press on. There are people who are depending on me. There are too many people who believe in me for me to give up. It’s my closest friends who are my cheerleaders—the ones who keep me going. Yet, there’s another reason. It’s me. I can’t give up on myself. I’ve come too far in the last couple of years to allow myself to give up too easily. Certainly, I wish things were easier, I wish there weren’t the pressure from all angles of my life for everything to happen all at once.

Here’s my confession: I get so frustrated at the things in life sometimes. Yet, I know I have a support structure in place that will hold me up no matter the situation. I have good group of people I love and trust with me. So, I’ll wake up in the morning, the merry-go-round will still be going. I’ll climb back on, go for another thousand or so rounds and do it all over again and again. There will be some point out there for rest in the not too distant future. Oh, that there were only an easier way to accomplish everything that needs to be accomplished. My spirit, my soul, my body is tired and weary, but I press on for another day.