I’m going to carry this with me. I need to carry this with me, especially at this present time when I feel like my path is a continuous circle. As someone above stated, fighting the good fight is extremely exhausting, and its even more exhausting when you are fighting while battling major depression. Thank you for the encouragement to take it all one round at a time!

I love your conclusion – and I agree wholeheartedly – you can ALWAYS reinvent yourself and start again. As many times as necessary. And, I love how you remain very real and transparent by stating that you continue to make your mistakes, but you stay focused on your goals and refuse to surrender!!

We simply need to get back up and start putting one foot in front of the other. Again and again.

Thanks for your encouragement!
Kris

I think a lot about how someone who is financially poor can lift themselves from the grip that poverty seems to have and that can actually hold a person down like a physical force squashing your dreams; and giving up is just so much easier than getting up every morning and continuing the good fight. It is a fight that can be exhausting and, based on your personal story, you know exactly what I am talking about!

So hard, in fact, that many give up or even cannot get started.

This is Father’s Day and I think about my own Dad, now deceased. I was born in West Texas, my Dad had an eighth grade education and was proud to be the best educated member of his family. He was a first generation Mexican-American and picked crops to support our family.

I have a graduate degree, receive a generous pension from a long career in the Federal Government, and I am financially independent. America is truly the land of opportunity, and of course it still is even in the face of the country’s present financial woes. But that doesn’t mean success is not hard work! Congratulations and thanks, again.