Just say no . . . and then take action. From Margaret Anna Alice at margaretannaalice.substack.com:
“Never accept an inferior position to anyone. It is the strongest spirit that wins, not the most expensive sword.”
—Miyamoto Musashi
The Courage to Survive
“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”
—Winston Churchill
Port Elizabeth, South Africa. December 18, 1994.
“Do you think she’s dead?” a man asked, speaking in Afrikaans.
“No one can survive that,” said his companion.
Later dubbed the Ripper Rapists, the two climbed into their victim’s car, one tossing a denim shirt onto the motionless body.
Once the thrum of the car engine faded into silence, twenty-seven-year-old Alison Botha scratched the names of her assailants in the sand followed by the note, “I love Mom.”
She thought those would be her last words. She lay on the ground, listening to her breaths whooshing through the stab wound in her trachea.
Suddenly, she found herself looking down at her body. She remembers being given “a choice whether to give up and be at peace or to carry on and fight to survive,” YouTuber Disturban reports.
Giving up is never on the menu.
Get another box of Bon Bons if the fat lady starts singing to distract her.
It isn’t over even in the ninth inning with Casey coming up to the bat for Mudville.
R Buckminster! Once used his stamp on a Feebay sale delivery and the buyer liked the stamp more than the item because of their career in architecture, what a positive feedback.
H/T to Alison for being an ultimate survivor.
First, never give up, because it ain’t over ’til it’s over. Second, during the years ahead, when you come to a fork in the road, take it. Third, don’t always follow the crowd, because nobody goes there anymore.
Yogi Berra