{"id":3400,"date":"2015-03-12T18:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karrenrenzsena.com\/?p=3400"},"modified":"2015-03-12T18:00:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T10:00:48","slug":"somedays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karrenrenzsena.com\/lab\/2015\/03\/12\/somedays\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Days: A Memo to the Tired, the Weary, the Exhausted"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some days, you just want to give up, yeah?<\/p>\n

Some days, you\u2019re all fired up and ready to take on the world, and some days\u00a0you just want to curl up in your bed and just be.<\/p>\n

Some\u00a0days, you\u2019re the hero, while some days you just want to stand still and not give a damn as you watch the whole world burn.<\/p>\n

There are days like that, when the wait is long and the spirit is weak; when the heart yearns and the body aches and the mind just wants to shut down. It happens when you look at your dreams and you see that long stretch of road ahead of you, and you\u2019re out of breath\u00a0and so, so tired\u00a0\u2014 so very tired \u2014 but there\u2019s still no sign of the finish line. You look on ahead and you wonder if you\u2019re even getting anywhere, because one step you take after another just leads you nowhere.<\/p>\n

And then you see them. All those people\u00a0running past you, all glowing and happy and energetic and on fire, on brilliant, blinding fire, and you look at yourself and you wonder when it was exactly that your own fire started to flicker, and why hadn\u2019t you noticed it?\u00a0You didn\u2019t even know that you got dimmer and\u00a0dimmer until it was too late, until you\u2019ve all but died down.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not cool. Some days, you\u2019re just not cool at all.<\/p>\n

Those days, those times when you\u2019re most uncool, those are the times you\u2019d feel like giving up. It\u2019s easiest to give up on those days, when hope is but a flickering flame ready to die at the slightest whisper of the wind, and your body is one push away from keeling over. Oh, how sweet it would be to just stop running, to stop fighting, to stop chasing an impossible, impossible dream.<\/p>\n

But then, if you quit, then that\u2019s the end of it. If you quit, then that\u2019s it. It\u2019s over. You\u2019re done.<\/p>\n

And that\u00a0sucks all the more. That\u2019s even sadder. So, very sad.<\/p>\n

So I guess, on the days that you are tired and nothing seems to be\u00a0working anymore \u2014 not your dreams, not your plans, not your goals, not even your\u00a0freaking body weight \u2014\u00a0stop.<\/p>\n

Stop and breathe. Take a minute, or two, or five, or an entire day if it helps you sleep at night, to just rest.<\/p>\n

Just rest. And remember. Remember your dreams. Remember who you are. Remember what you\u2019re doing this for.<\/p>\n

And if you still see that long stretch of road ahead of you, try not to despair. Look back instead and marvel at the long stretch of road behind you, and give yourself a pat on the back for getting as far\u00a0as where you are right now.<\/p>\n

Because on days you feel like crap, your dreams are crap, your efforts are crap, realize that it\u2019s not really about how far you still have to go. It\u2019s about how far you\u2019ve already come.<\/p>\n

Then\u00a0maybe, just maybe, you realize that it\u2019s not such a bad day, after all.<\/p>\n

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\"1904\"<\/a><\/div>\n
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Karren Renz Se\u00f1a<\/i><\/div>\n
11 March 2015<\/div>\n
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