Let’s see what happens when we don’t give up

Last week, I got to a point where I genuinely felt like giving up, not because I became lazy nor I didn't care. I had actually been trying and putting in my very effort, trying different things, hoping something would finally work.

But somehow, things just weren't going the way I had planned.

And honestly, it was frustrating, then came the pressure of it all

You look around and your mates are doing things, most are getting ahead, some are achieving something you thought you would have achieved by now, I mean not comparison

Then there is pressure at home, pressure from people around you, and the pressure you quietly put on yourself.

At some point, I started asking myself, “How long am I going to keep doing this?”

I was disappointed in myself, cause I think I've actually wasted some years of my life and I am so tired of it.

And for a moment, giving up felt like the easiest thing to do, okay I'm gonna give up to be rest at peace

But then I asked myself a different question; what if I don't give up?

That question actually stayed with me.

I thought about it for a while, that if I give up now, what exactly happens? In that i may never know how close I was nor never know what could have happened if I had tried one more time.

So I told myself, “Okay, let's see what happens when I don't give up.” cause I'm so sure, something happens

That simple decision made me so curious of what happens when one don't give up

I went back to researching people who had experienced failure before finding their breakthrough. And I realized something I think we often forget, that we usually see people's results, but we don't see all the attempts that came before them.

The likes of Thomas Edison and the many experiments that came before the practical electric light bulb. Imagine if he had stopped during the process, just almost to the success. We wouldn't have been enjoying what we are enjoying through the electric bulb or so

The lesson isn't that everyone who refuses to quit will automatically succeed, life isn't that simple, you have to follow the process

Sometimes you have to change your approach and learn and in most times, you have to rest and start again.

But you have to give yourself the opportunity to find out what happens and that's where I am right now.

I don't know exactly how everything will turn out, I just know I don't want to stop here.

So, for now, I'm asking myself one question, WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DON'T GIVE UP?

let's see it through, cause I'm ready to know what really happens or what's at the end of the tunnel