Shattered dreams

Final question......


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5. Will I survive even if it doesn’t work out?

The Olympics are watched around the world. Every country cheering for their athletes. In a split second, a dreamed of medal is secured, in that same split second the other person's dreams are shattered.  A jumping spin landed wrong is reviewed over and over.  A mistake on the snowy mountain is viewed from every angle.  Some athletes take terrible risk with their health and 'performance enhancing' drugs.  Others have stooped to illegal acts in their quest to fulfill their dream of Olympic Gold.  Attacking their opponents to give themselves an unfair advantage.  Others dreams are shattered when a competitor falls and takes two or three others with them.  Still others pushed their bodies to the max and beyond until they break or win.  Stranger still are those that achieve their goal then realize the cost was just too great or what do you do after your dream is obtained?

Tonight I pondered on what happens when dreams don't work out.  I learned I survive.  A LOT OF PEOPLE survive.  That is why we are called survivors because we saw our dreams shattered and our hearts are still beating, we still wake up in the morning, with another 24 hours to get through.  Some spiral downward into a swirl of addictions while others rebuild a new dream.  What causes one person to shrivel and waste away their lives and another to pull themselves back up on their feet like a battered boxer, swaying and bruised but prepared to carry on?  What element of determination keeps them rebuilding and reinventing their destiny?