Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you have tried everything you can think of to make the situation better or solve your problem? After you have done these things the situation changes but you are no better off than when you started --- maybe even worse! You just want to throw up your hands and say “What’s the Use?”
But that’s the funny thing about our human nature. It seems when we are at our lowest this is when we begin to function at our best. There’s something about NOT being able to solve a problem that makes us apply ourselves even greater in our efforts to gain a solution. It seems that for a small percentage of the human population who develop the ability to refuse to accept failure there is a concerted effort to continue their progress on the path of gaining success.
We can see this human persistence in the many decades of medical, mechanical, electronic, and space research that has been done. In any of these areas when difficulties have arisen applications have been put into operation so that advancement could continue to move forward. Sometimes this advancement seems to have been extremely quickly. At other times the advancement was more slowly, but the advancement was continued never the less. If we think back into history we can also realize that many, if not most, of the greatest inventions and discoveries came by the efforts of more than one individual. Within their time of existence and with all the available knowledge and technology during their life span some individuals went as far as they could go with their experiments or inventions, but they could go no further. Then, after years passed, other individuals picked up their work and continued to advance in their progress. Or there are those circumstances where one invention is taken by an individual and given a new application to solve a new problem. This happens more often than a person might imagine. With these arrangements in place it all falls back to the tenacity of men and women who had the courage and the fortitude to refuse to accept failure as an option. They continued to move forward to make the advancement of human kind the objective of all their efforts.
But aside from great achievements throughout the centuries of human existence the human nature factor of mankind applies just as well in the smaller aspects of human life. Consider the following fictional scenario as an example (although it could happen). You and a friend have decided to take a hike through the mountainous country region close to your home. After arriving in the area you set up your camp site and decide to take a brisk evening walk through the woods before night fall. Before you realize it you are lost! To add to the critical situation, your friend missteps on the side of the cliff, falling about thirty feet into a ravine and breaking his leg in three places. As you continue to reach your friend and provide him with medical assistance you realize that nightfall is quickly setting in and the temperature begins to drop drastically. So, now you find yourself lost, with no contact with the “outside” world. It is becoming darker and darker. You estimate that your friends’ injuries are more serious than you thought and he is having difficulty staying conscious. At this point you decide you have a choice to make: You can throw up your hands and concede there is no happy ending to your situation and say “What’s the Use?” Or you can access the possibilities and decide you are not going to accept failure as an option and fight your way to survival.
We must NEVER forget that in EVERY situation we always have a choice. We can give up or we can choose to move forward to a solution. Maybe when we feel we are not getting the answers we need to our questions we need to re-evaluate: Maybe we are asking the WRONG questions! I’ve always loved the team motto from “Galaxy Quest” (great movie! Look it up!): “Never give up! Never surrender!”
QUOTE TO CONSIDER
THOUGHTFUL GEMS
"When life hits you hard - - -
HIT BACK!"
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