If any of you has ever seen "Run Fat Boy Run" ( One of my favorite movies) You'll Know what "hitting the wall" means. If not it's basically the point in endurance sports (running, cycling, swimming etc.) where you're body wants to quit. (or more precisely the glycogen stores in the liver and muscles begin to deplete, leaving you feeling like you can't go any farther)
When I'm riding my bike, I pretty much always hit the wall about ten minutes in, it doesn't matter whether I'm climbing a hill or on flat ground, it's almost always about ten minutes in. Now the key to hitting the wall is to push past it, don't stop, don't give up, push past it, because once you get past it your endorphins will kick in, leaving you feeling that "runner's high."
In life, we tend to "Hit the wall." A lot.
When this happens we always want to give up, even when pushing past it will get us to the other side, and stronger, (sorry for yet another exercise analogy) when we work out, muscles have to tear to get stronger, just like we have to get over our walls to be stronger.
When I was 14 I moved from the place I'd lived most my life, I was in middle school, I was just starting to have good friends, and we moved. It was a wall for me, but rather than climb past my wall I continued to stand there stubbornly waiting for everyone else around me to change it, over time more walls were built, and more, until the walls were bigger than me and started to topple down on top of me.
It takes a lot more work to climb out of the wreckage than it does to climb over it while it's still smaller than you.
So don't give up when you reach that wall.
Climb over it.
You are bigger than the wall and no matter how hard it gets, you can ALWAYS get over that next wall, even if it seems like you never will.
Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things.-Randy Pausch
Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him. James 1:12
Never give up. :)
Loves.
