PoisonedMemories

Giving up feels so good. It really does. But when we give up, we only think about the short term effects. Your goal is to run 2 miles but stop at 1.5. It feels good to stop, take a breath, and relax. But in the long run, you'll never reach the endurance of 2 miles. There's a test tomorrow and you're studying, deciding that studying til 12 should be enough. But you want to sleep and you hit the sack at 11:30. It feels good to close your eyes and not have to work hard. But if you utilized those 30 minutes, you could have gotten farther than you did. Giving up feels great. But we don't think about the long term consequences of our actions. What we do in a second feels great for a day or two, but the guilt kicks in. We start wishing we hadn't stopped and kept going. Don't let that happen to you; don't give up.

If you're going through something tough, just remember that no problem is tougher than you are.

Don't be afraid to fail. Yes, I understand how cliche that sounds, but seriously. If you're scared of failing, you're scared of learning, of getting back up. You're afraid of growing and finding more about yourself. If you fail, that doesn't mean you'll never succeed. It just means that you need to keep trying, maybe a different way.

There's no rush. Live your life slowly. Enjoy every second, savor every moment. Think things through before you make a decision because every action has a reaction. Most of the time, the consequences to irrational and haste choices are the ones that haunt us forever.

If people are giving you a hard time, just remember there's good people in the world and there's bad people too. But you have to go through the bad ones to find the good people. Believe me, they're out there somewhere.