**…continued…** from [part 1](https://steemit.com/football/@communitycoin/football-and-life-never-give-up-contributed-by-olawalium) and [part 2](https://steemit.com/resilience/@communitycoin/football-and-life-never-give-up-ii-contributed-by-olawalium)

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Life will give you pressure, but you have to be able to reply with the same intensity which should force you to attack rather than accept your situation or trying to manage the situation. Take the driving seat of your life. You shouldn’t be a secondary character in your life’s story. How would you want your story to be told? Most of the people we look up to and admire moved from a point of being dissatisfied with their situation into where they are now. You have to desire it. You have to show a resilient spirit.

Life will try to grind you and if you give it your all, then the same excitement the Swiss showed at the end of the match; pure joy which cannot be fully expressed, can also be yours. That’s why people shed tears of joy when they see their efforts finally paying off. You will be pushed to the breaking point. You will feel you have no energy left until you keep pushing and pushing and you might get to the point where you feel you have no energy left, then that is the point where most breakthroughs happen; never give up, because life would want you to give up, but the truth is, if life throws your back on the ground, you should be excited a little; because if you can look up, you can get up.

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I read a story about a man who held his coffee cup and someone ran into him. The coffee spilled and when he was asked why the coffee spilled, he said someone ran into him. As reasonable as that answer was, the main reason that happened was because there was something in the cup. If it was water, it would still spill, so if nothing was in the cup, nothing can spill and that is just exactly like life. Our thoughts shape our actions. So, when life rammed you, whatever you have inside you will spill out. If you have bitterness, hatred, hopelessness and a defeated state of mind, it would be very obvious for all to see but if you have resilience, hope and determination, when life try to push you off, the goodness and determined nature in you will rush out and it would determine what you will get in life.

Never give up. Never lose hope. Don’t lose courage. Courage is not the absence of fear but the presence of fear, yet the will goes on. There is no courage without fear, so it is okay to be a little fearful. There is no breakthrough without the things you are currently dealing with that seem to be taking you apart, but you have to let the determination to overturn the situation spill out so you can have control of the situation.

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Thank you for your time.

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*Still me*,

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