PUSH!

     So I believe I have had many times in life that I have had to "push" for something to happen....from being a little girl and realizing the swing needed to be "pushed" to move, to now being an adult and having to "push" to get through situations and still maintain. Over my [short] years :-), I realize that the pushing times eventually brought a smile to my face or a slight giggle. Those smiles and giggles were just a reminder of how bad I felt, the tears I cried, and the frustration I experienced in different moments...and how I thought I would never get through them. But yet and still, I would be present in that moment, battle scars present, but healed.  

      My grandmother told me, "There is nothing you can't get over or through", and I stand firm on that notion. I realize, even when you think you aren't doing anything, each day that you wake up, and work a little to get through any situation, you are literally pushing yourself, inch by inch, away from whatever is behind you. "Behind you" doesn't have to mean a bad relationship, or trouble- it can simply mean pushing yourself closer to your dreams.  But the point of it all is the "pushing" time defines you in the end. 

     Like a mother pushes to bring a child into the world, that temporary pain or sacrifice you make to birth something beautiful, is essentially what life is about...keep pushing...

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. -Muhammad Ali