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Dont quit john greenleaf whittier2/3/2024 The son of two devout Quakers, he grew up on the family farm and had little formal schooling. All rights reserved.An American poet and editor, John Greenleaf Whittier was born December 17, 1807, in Haverhill, Massachusetts. It’s when things seem worst that you must not quit.Ĭopyright 2019, Gwendolyn Raczkowski. ![]() So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit. When he might have captured the victor’s cup,Īnd he learned too late, when the night slipped down,Īnd you never can tell just how close you are, When he might have won had he stuck it out ĭon’t give up though the pace seems slow. When the funds are low and the debts are highĪnd you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill, When things go wrong as they sometimes will, When life is like this, it’s important to take stock of things and remember it’s okay to feel all those feelings, to need to take time to reconnect with yourself, to take a step back and readjust your priorities and decision making sometimes, just as long as you do not quit.ĭo not quit fighting for your happiness and health.ĭo not quit relentlessly and audaciously pursuing your dreams and desires. I’ve been there so often and have had to claw my way out of there again and again. When even being awake feels like a pointless act…Īnd when the hopes and dreams and desires seem so far away that it isn’t even worth it to try to escape from the pit of despair that you’re in that you’re willing to resign yourself to a life of unfulfillment and unhappiness. Life is fucking hard sometimes and there are days when your heart is so broken it feels like it is breaking for real… ![]() I am sorry, but if the son of God cried out, “Father, why have you forsaken me?!” and scolded his friends for not being there for him, then I am bewildered why mere mortals such as myself are held to a higher standard in our times of struggle. If you have friends and family, you’re never alone. I know people always say to those who, like me, are struggling with these feelings: I’ve been fighting to survive for so long and frankly, I’m tired of fighting. I have felt like that recently a lot more than I care to admit. ![]() There are moments when you feel like you’ve gone as far as you can go and that even one more step will destroy you. There are times when the hopelessness, the unbearable darkness, or the unrelenting toxicity of a situation seems to have no end or seems to be so great it isn’t worth seeking hope, light, or health and happiness. There are days where getting out of bed, eating, or simply taking a shower feels like too much. I don’t think I’m the only person who at times finds myself in a place where I feel like I am not at the end of my rope and not even holding onto the knot I tied to the end of it either, but rather that I’m hanging onto the frayed ends of the rope someplace below the knot and feeling very much like I cannot hang on much longer. When this happens, we oftentimes declare that we will never give up and never surrender yet there always comes a point where we feel that we can go on no longer. We all have those times in life where struggles pile on top of struggles, bad on top of bad, setbacks on top of setbacks.
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