Have you ever struggled with a decision that just leaves you in a total state of dilemma. But at the same time, you just know you just had to make it.
I am still struggling with mine. I've made a decision that is less popular because it is a road less trodden.
With all my heart I wish my loved ones could just accept my decision. However, I know where the 'resistance' is coming from.
It comes from their own fear of the unknown.
And out of that fear, comes barrages of critiques, that at times, can be overwhelming and disheartening.
Of course, I do not blame them for 'fearing' for me. They fear for my wellbeing out of love for me. I totally get it. But when words of 'non-blessing' starts spewing out; and coming from one you love, it can sure starts taking its toll on you.
Oh well...
That is why the quote below is means a lot to me, at a time when I need to find my centre again.
“It is not the critic who counts;
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of
deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is
actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who
strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is
no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the
deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great end of triumph of high
achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring
greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who
neither know victory nor defeat.”
~ Theodore Roosevelt~
