I Am Tenacious

I don't give up easily.  In fact, I'm a little on the obsessive side.  And yes, that's probably putting it mildly.  I just don't tend to let things, or more specifically -- ideas, go away.

If you haven't already heard, I'm currently sidetracked by an injury.  I got incredibly close to running my first marathon.  But, I failed during the final stage.  I have been knocked down.  Have I given up?  Oh, no no no  --  quite the contrary.  In fact, once I'm over this initial shock and disappointment, I suspect I'll do what I've always done.  I'll use it as fuel. 

You see, I don't like being directed by anyone or anything that I can't do something.  It will be important to prove (even if it's just to myself) that I can do whatever I choose.  However, it will require a good deal of patience on my part.  But I am persistent, unshakable, tough, resilient and tenacious.

If you get up one more time than you fall, you have made it through.
 

-- Chinese Proverb

Like this palm tree battered 
by the elements,
I may bend, 
but I will not break.

I will stand, I will grow, I will thrive.

I will heal.

I will run.


I am tenacious.


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