One thing that characterizes me is that whenever I start a battle, a fight for something, I never quit it, independently of the results of that battle. I can be afraid, very afraid, I can get disappointed, very disappointed, but whenever I start a fight for something that I really like I know that I’ll take to the end, no matter how difficult it looks, no matter how stupid it looks to other people. I have realized that the only battles that I have quit are those I didn’t really wanted to fight, those that wasn’t going to give what I want, those where I was fighting for a lie.
I remember so many times in my life when I have stand out above others not because I was a great man, not because I was powerful, intelligent, rich or anything else but because I never quit my battles, simple, not even complicated battles that many has quit. I remember those battles and the people around me fighting at the same time with me; I remember how they always quit before me. The reason why I am in Australia is because I got a scholarship from an Australian University to live here; before getting this scholarship, I applied to so many others and get rejected from so many places around the world, if I’m not wrong I applied maybe for 20 different places and got frustrated so many times after reach rejection, specially knowing that I was one of the best chemistry students of my country! What I never did was to quit. I remember that so many of my friends at the same time were applying for scholarships and most of them never got one, not because they couldn’t, but because they quit after getting rejected in their first or second application.
I remember also my friends in Colombia and their attitude after losing an exam. I was one of the best students of my generation, but beside that, so many times I had to confront the fear of losing one single subject. In Colombia the subjects are evaluated using marks from 0 to 5 where 0 is the worst and 5 the best, and to pass a subject you have to go through at least 3 exams during a semester. I’m not sure why but I remember so clear my attitude and the attitude of some of my friends when we used to get a mark of 1/5 in the first exam of the semester. Their attitude always was to say that after getting such a bad mark it was impossible to pass that subject and they used to gave up not even taking the 2 other exams. In my case, instead of saying that was impossible to pass the subject I used to study harder and believe that it was possible to pass the subject. I never lost a subject, all of my friends did!
What I have came to realize is that many people quit their battles even before starting, is enough a little difficulty in the horizon, small words of hopeless from somebody or a small fight lost for them to quit, I would say that more than 90% of the people I now are like that, and that’s one of the reasons most of the people around the world never get that they really want to get from life.
Fighting for your dreams is a difficult task that requires strong character, powerful mentality, it requires to overcome your worst fears, fight against others ideas, fight even against the people who love you and try to advice you from their point of view. Fighting for your dreams is about never give up, no matter how difficult your goal look, no matter how much deep you have to sink into darkness, hopeless, frustration and all those feelings that are common after failure and rejection.
To fight for what you want you require four main things, desire, faith, perseverance and work. Desire and perseverance to not surrender, faith to understand that you are going to get what you want without knowing how or when, and work because you need to keep moving towards your goal, learning, beating yourself every single moment of your life. From the examples I gave you before, you could see that to get my scholarship or pass the exams in the university I used these 4 things, I always believed it was possible, I desired to get what I wanted with all my heart and I worked and persevere to get it no matter if my goal use to look impossible. Believe me I wasn’t and I’m not such a great student, I think I never studied so hard as others, and now I understand it was because my driven forces were faith, desire and perseverance first, then work. For others, most of the people, work is their driving force but they do it without desire and faith and that’s where they fail, that’s why they surrender so easily.
Never give up after losing the first battle, all of us has to lose something always in order to win, in order to become what we really want, in order to take from life whatever we want to take! Faith perseverance, desire and hard work should be the driven forces to make you follow your dreams!
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