Have You Given Up?

There comes a time in everyone's life when things are just not working out as we had planned or hoped.  The person we fall in love with doesn’t respond, we fail to get the dream job, our children refuse to obey the rules of the home, or get involved with substance abuse.  The list of failures in our life can go on for ever.  And they occur frequently.  We are never immune to difficult times for ourselves and those we love.

Most of us can stand the occasional setback in our plans and dreams, but when they compound (one on top of another), they can alter our perception of what life is all about.  We begin to question our own sanity, our own right to happiness.  Some people may even feel cursed and doomed to failure (it’s the will of the gods!).

It doesn’t have to be that way.  I do not accept the concept that anyone is doomed to failure for any reason.  If you accept that as a fact, you are making a personal choice.  Yes – it is a choice for you to decide if you are doomed. If you say you are doomed, you are doomed!  If you choose to believe there is hope for you and your future, there will be hope!  Henry Ford once said 'whether you think you can or think you can't, either way you are right'.

Its your choice to decide where your future will take you.  Its your choice to pursue your dreams and hopes for the future, or to give up and slowly die.  

It's your choice NOT to give up!

- Joe Freeman