The Power of Persistence: Overcoming Obstacles to Achieve Your Dreams

All of us have many dreams in our minds, but hardly few manage to get them fulfilled in the first attempt. Dreaming is the sweetest thing ever, because we always dream about things we love and hope .The best way to reach your dreams and hopes is to work to achieve them and to change them to reality and never giving up in any situation. “Never give up” means keep trying and never stop working for your goals. For many people, failure is nothing but the first step towards the success.

This should be our approach in life. For instance, small babies when learn to walk, they fell down many times. But they don't give up. They keep trying and when they make it, their happy faces say it all. It is rightly said, "Winners never quit, and quitters never win" I remember that one moment in late 90s, it was half past ten in the night, and my uncle was taking to my grandfather that he could not work more in that company because they are not paying him good according to his qualification and he wants to quit that job.

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My grandfather said to my uncle, “you know boy never give up is key to success”

My father was a marine soldier, so he was always strict with everyone, even me too. His decisions was always straight forwards if he commit any decision that mean that’s his final decision and we have to follow them. He always told me to never give up.

His words are always strong with me. I remember those days when he always pushes me for workout and he always compete me for pushups and he always won. He doesn’t like to lose because he was marine soldier. I remember that day when we both are competing each other. His arms and shoulders were too strong. He starts, ten….. , Twelve.., eighteen…, twenty five.., thirty-five…. and fifty.

He told me to get down on the floor and he starts counts one, two …. And I ends at ten and then I heard my dad voice come one you can do it two more and five more and again two more like that I ends at twenty pushups. He would see my reddened, sweating face and pain in my body but still he wants me to more and more. I just heard the words never give up u can also does it and then I felled down and I said no more. Then, with his squinting eyes he would laugh at me, a high laugh and said do you think you can do more than me. I was so angry and would not answer and look at him; I just go to my next exercise. I never thought that was easy at all.

That was the way I felt for so many years during my teens, when I was ten years old. I still love to challenge my father. We had always been a physical relationship between each other. We never communicate to each other in speech as well as in written. My mother always wrote me letters and calls me through phone when I am in high school. Even my dad never helps me in my studies too, but he always in the stand during my tennis games. He always try to communicate me during the game that how I have to play. He always shows me new move for my game because he was a great athletics and tennis player. That’s shows how much he had love for me. I remember that game when I was almost losing my final of tennis in my high school. Where at the end of set my father came to me and talk to me that how can I back into the game and how can I beat my rival. He told me never to give up, fight till the end of the game which is always stuck in my mind.

I remember how happy he was when I won that final tennis game. At that moment something occurred to me, something unexpected. My feeling changed towards my dad with in a second. I realized that I was feeling sorry for my dad that he was always right that if you have self-determination and confidence you can chase and win anything in this world. That day that moment stick in my mind and now whenever I have those kind of situation I always goes back to my earlier days and solved out my problems. I remember that one time moment, a few years ago while I still was in high school; one of my dreams was to move to the United States and to peruse a college education there. I tried and I failed with accomplishing this plenty of times. But, no matter what anyone said and no matter what obstacles I came across I had made a promise to myself to never give up on that dream because I always had those three words of my father with me “never give up”.

Although it wasn’t the most far out dream, it was still something I really, really wanted to do. I worked hard through high school, I got a job on the side to help me save up money, and I looked around for schools and places I could imagine myself living. I did this all by myself, and it eventually paid off. I am now living and studying in the United States, and loving every single day of it. I’m proud of myself for never giving up. I now know to keep motivated for my dreams, and that with work hard, fight and passion, anyone can do anything. To sum up, never giving up is the key of success in human life. If someone get good support from their family and friends things will definitely workout in the end. I don’t think that I will ever give up in my life now. I am doing my majors in computer science and I am not going to be stop now till I do not achieve my goals.