never give up

life is a journey. Thus one of life's teachers once said. And since life is a journey, our duty just goes on and on, until we reach our destination.
What kind of journey is life? Walking where our lives? How do we live our lives?
Such questions will arise if we analyze life as a journey.

The journey of our life starts from the beginning of our arrival in this world, out of the womb of a mother, and begins to gain love and blessings. Then we gradually grow into a man who has his own personality. We begin to make our choices, start spinning in bad good behavior, start to be confused by reality and idealism, begin to not understand, start to give up, then start enlightened again.
Many things we experience in life. Very much. Whatever we experience, no matter how we live, all we have to do is keep walking, keep walking in our lives.

But sometimes we are forced to give up, forced to stop moving. There are times when we become so hopeless, feeling helpless and unable to do anything. There are times where we are in the nadir, being and sinking so far in the valley of the desert. I do not know what the problem or reason behind the downturn, but most of us must have experienced such a thing. Under those conditions or circumstances, our minds that have been as tired as the various aspects of our lives may whisper, "I give up. I can not afford to walk again ". I've had a time where the only option available to me just stopped stepping in, giving up because it's so powerless. I have tried all the ways, all approaches, but I can not make things better. Therefore, I will not blame any of you who want to surrender.

But then I realized. I have gone so far. Far too far. I can not possibly return (and the journey of life is the same as the passage of time, which once we step we will not be able to retreat or return), but my energy to move on has also been exhausted. In my mind only one, I had to stop stepping and sit waiting to die, or collect the remnants of my energy to keep moving. Hope makes me stronger. Hope provides a bright light between the darkness of my situation. I step by inch, continue to struggle with problems I can not solve, hoping that help will arise, something that will increase my energy. I stepped on, and kept walking.

But I do not dare expect the situation will be exactly the same as what I expected. Expecting all never happened, and expecting what happens is what we want, at that time it feels so scary. Fear for disappointment made me stop wishing. I just keep the expectations to be in the appropriate proportions. So I can continue to move, without terrlalu much disappointed. But it turns out, after stepping and continue to move for so long, I still have not reached the destination (the completion of the problem). Whenever expectations dwindle, the temptation to surrender becomes even greater