Quitters Never Win

Quitters never win. That statement was always just part of a saying to me. It never carried much weight and I'm begining to believe it is because I never truely understood it. I never understood it until quitting was staring in the mirror back at me.

I have a confession to make. It's a confession I don't actually think I've mentioned to anyone.

I almost quit running.

I know, big shocker right. I'm not talking about quitting back when I was a child and thought it was too hard. I'm talking about recently. Very recently. Within the past year. In fact a majority of the days throughout my sophomore year quitting was an idea that always came up. Why you ask? Well, to be honest, life wasn't going the way I wanted it to. I had suffered 3 stress fractures within the year that caused me to miss a majority of my Cross-Country season and all of my winter track and spring track season. Every time I had attempted to run again, another stress fracture popped up. I was tired of getting let down and I couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel. I felt I was done.

But quitters never win. I don't know what kept me from quitting, but I'd like to chalk it up to passion. In the end I knew my life without running wouldn't be better then my "broken" (no pun intended Luke) running life was.

Now on to another confession....it was the greatest decision I have possibly ever made. You see, it doesn't matter whether your an athlete, singer, dancer, painter, or anyone. If you love something, you don't let it go. No, your life won't be perfect all the time, but life is all about fighting through the bad times to get to the good times. Every journey has it bumps along the way. That is what makes it all work it. Trust me, I'm in the happy times now. Things find a way to work out.

You'll win in the end. Don't give up