How is it going?

Last week I got a question, about my studies: How is it going? It is interesting when you start to do something new or, in this case, when you return to do something that you used to do, and want to go back.

The first general reaction is that on not believing that you will succeed. Sometimes you hear some jokes, and that initial flame that got you in action must be traded smoothly by discipline, otherwise you will give up before even starting.

After a while, the jokes start to change for something like "I wish to do this too", or "how are you doing this?". In short speech, you start with a exterior feeling of doubt, and, if you insist on your goals, people gradually became your supporters, be that with or without telling you.

I had that once when I decided riding a bike to work. First the jokes, than questions about how I was doing, where I was taking a shower, questions if it was difficult, and than, even some friends that became also going to job riding their bikes.

I have said a lot here in this blog about the "must go on", "don´t give up", and other related sentences, and it is because I have given up so many times in my life. Still, it is never to late to go back, and starting again, and again, and again.

I sometime heard, or maybe read somewhere, that the pain is the weakness going out of us, when we start to do something that we are not fully ready to do. You have to get hurt, struggle, fall down sometimes, to get the skills needed to be succeed. If you stop, the only certainty is that of not getting to the top, not becoming strong enough to make it happen.

Sometimes you will have to slow down, stop and analyze you achievements, maybe chance this or that strategy, so you can take the right path. See, that the right path is not always the easiest or the shortest, but you can and must go on.

As I said before, you start like an underdog, that one that nobody believes in, and, with persistence and discipline, you can became that one that make people believe that it is possible.

The world needs us. They need to believe that is possible to dream, but also make thinks happen. Like that sentence (maybe from Mark Twain): "They did not know it was impossible, so they did it".