You gotta keep your eyes on the finish line

• Phunkie wrote on 2014-01-20 09:28
  It's so easy to give up. I mean it. It's so easy to back down or to not show up or to not even try.
  
  It's so hard to do it. So hard to get yourself out of that rut you've been wanting to get yourself out of for a long time, and you KNOW you need to get out of it, but it's so easy to give up on that drive whenever it shows up. It takes effort. Effort can be scary.
  
  The other day, a friend of mine told me that it's about time she gets up and quits her job, that it's about time for her to start her career. She went to school for musical theater, you see, so she wants to be big in shows and Broadway and all that. I think she can do it, her voice is incredible. But she told me something peculiar. She was afraid of being successful. Wow. That stuck to me.
  
  We spend our whole lives running away from the persons we don't want to be become. We put effort into it. We aim towards that education because we don't wanna find mediocre jobs, we aim towards good relationships because we're afraid of being alone. Sometimes, it makes me think, we too get scared when we do obtain those amazing things we've dreamed of all our lives and then we run from those too. Running from what we don't want, running from what we want. What difficult situations we get ourselves in sometimes.
  
  
  The message I wanted to share with you guys tonight is a simple one.
  
  You gotta keep your eyes on the finish line. No matter what situation you find yourself in.
  
  Hit 24 this past October and life still hits you in the face. You'd think the older you become, the more ready or prepared you can be for these kinds of things. Nope. It's still just as tough. Sometimes, even at 24, you wanna give it all up and just quit. But you can't.
  
  Quicksand, hurricanes, bad friends, bad relationships, floods, bad grades, drugs, you gotta shake 'em all off!! And you gotta remind yourself to keep your eyes fixed on what's important. Some people call it God, some call it happiness, some call it love, some call it laughter, friends, family. Whatever it is, don't lose sight of it!! I wish I could say that it wouldn't get tough, but it will. It'll get hard and devastating and depressing and maybe you may wanna die at some points of your life. But you know what? It's gonna be okay. :)
  
  FUCK YEAH!!
  
  I'm thinking back to those days in high school where I used to be scared of the bullies, to those days in college where I was worried about being fit to impress a crappy boyfriend I used to have, haha. I didn't think I'd get through those days back then, but I'm still here now and that's incredible.
  
  Sometimes you gotta add some perspective to life to humble you. So you can realize how much you've overcome and how strong you are. And then you gotta get back on track.
  
  FINISH LINE, BABY!!
  
  Love you all. Don't give up.
• Yoorah wrote on 2014-01-20 22:43
  Great post, as always. :D And I totally agree.
  Sometimes I see people struggling with things like these, and I keep wondering how I can best help them, or if I can help at all.
• Aubog007 wrote on 2014-01-21 02:12
  I have a rebuttal for this, but it would take me an hour to write, so perhaps another time.
  
  I always focus on the past, present and future for all of my endeavors.
• Phunkie wrote on 2014-01-22 10:13

  Quote from Aubog007;1189896:

  I have a rebuttal for this, but it would take me an hour to write, so perhaps another time.
  
  I always focus on the past, present and future for all of my endeavors.

  
  
  Awesome! Can't wait to read it!
• Aubog007 wrote on 2014-01-22 10:33

  Quote from Phunkie;1190397:

  Awesome! Can't wait to read it!

  
  
  Well, your comment about shaking things off, i disagree with, you learn from them, examine them, understand how it affected your train of thought, this is why for every failure i have done, i have never regret any of them, for without those failures, you lose extremely valuable experience.
  
  Valuable experience that can be used to further your life along, like for example. I met a rather close friend, who i am extremely fond of, and due to what times are paths actually crossed, our paths werent able to stay together, yet I don't regret meeting them, or wishing i met them sooner, simply because I used that time to gain extremely important information about myself, and as a result, it has made me a much happier, less depressed individual, so never throw away your bad experiences, every experience can be learned from, don't waste that potential away.
  
  Basically, treat each experience as not a bump in the road, but as a stepping stone to something better.
  
  
  
  That's a rebuttal for one part of your post.
• 800mans wrote on 2014-01-23 05:32
  don't forget to help others along the way to the finish line:P. If many people did that, I might start to become less cynical sigh
• Chinaboy475 wrote on 2014-01-25 04:54
  I totally agree with you, you're posts are always awesome! Keep on staying positive ^_^