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All The Motivation I Need
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Once upon a time there was a boy named David.
When he was born, one of his eyes had to be removed because of cancer. But then he lived fourteen years without much drama. He did fine seeing out of one eye and wearing one "fake." He went through years of growing up, loving his family, going to church, being a good student, liking art and computers. Fourteen years.
And then one day, he got a nosebleed that didn't want to stop. The cancer was back. It was in his brain. And it was bad.
For two years, David endured. He endured pain, the loss of his "good" eye, radical surgeries that left his face and head disfigured, different kinds of treatments that made him sick. He endured living under a death sentence and having to say goodby to his friends and family and everything he knew and loved.
The summer before he died, David went to camp. Not a mamby-pamby camp for sick kids, or blind kids, or dying kids. He went to winderness camp and went rock climbing and white water rafting. And so I have a "picture" of David, frail and weak, blind and dying, sitting in the front of a raft, grinning widely; feeling the spray of the rapids on his face, hearing his counselor yell at him, "Hang on, David; hang on!"
And I look at that picture when I get tired or afraid and feel like giving up, of slowing down, of just taking it easy. I see David, and I try again. I see him, and I try harder. I remember that it's always worth it to do the very best you can, even when time is running out. It's worth it to try to win every time, even when you know you're losing.
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