Finishing your race is rewarding
CARMEN GEORGE

My heart was pounding. Each step I took on the track echoed through my body.

Faster, go faster, go. I could hear these words in my heart and in the stands. My muscles were aching, my feet throbbing, my track jersey moist from sweat, and my head was barely conscious as if I was floating in some sort of crazy dream.

Go Carmen, push faster, don’t let her catch you, keep going, you’re almost there, don’t give up, don’t give up. “Don’t give up,” I said to myself again, and amazingly, when I felt like my body would collapse and my heart would stop beating, it did not. When I felt like there was absolutely nothing left in me, I sped up, I pushed harder and I finished the race in first place.

When we feel like we’ve pushed ourselves absolutely as far as we can go, we have only gone half the distance. That race is like life, when we think we cannot, we can. When we believe things are so bad that we cannot possibly pull out of them, we do.

As defeated as we may sometimes feel, we must remember that we cannot finish our own races halfway through the second turn. Our own races are not over until they are over, and we cannot give up when it begins to get tough. We are absolutely amazing, we are born to be survivors, and we can make it, as bad as the pain may temporarily be.

Finishing your own race is so much more rewarding than asking yourself for all of eternity, “What could I have done if I kept believing?”

We can overcome pain and suffering, but we cannot dismiss our goals, dreams and our lives. Keep going strong all the way until you reach that finish line, you’ll be glad that you did.

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