Doesn T Giving Up

Once I was afraid of bodies of water since I did not know how to swim, now I am in love with any activity that has to do with water. I was raised in the Dominican Republic, a caribbean island, where it is customary to throw one’s child in the deep end of a pool so that their natural instinct of swimming is awakened. I was not the case. My mother pushed me to the water and amazingly enough I did not panic. Instead of panicking, I accepted my fate and sunk down. After about 30 seconds in my cousin dove in a took me out. Once out of the water, I began to panic. Consequently, I began crying, shaking and screaming at my mother for throwing me into the pool. Shortly after that my mother placed me in swimming classes and everything changed.

The phrase “Never give up” is used in so many stories like The Other side of the Sky and Cremation of Sam McGee. In the book The Other side of the Sky there is a lot of bravery shown when they are walking for miles and trying to get past the gate. This is an example of never giving up.In Cremation of Sam McGee sam's friend doesn't give up when he is dragging his friend Sam McGee, to be able to cremate him. This is also another example of never giving up because sam’s friend never gave up on Sam McGee and Sam McGee never give up on him and his friend never gave up while trying to cremated Sam

For this week, discussion assignment the short articles I decided to read is the topic about why “Never Give Up” is a bad Motto.

I think I can apply this by starting to show myself more respect when I try. When I fail I beat myself up about it. I can respect that I am trying and learning and when I can do that I can start showing people I am

I began when I was about seven years old when I tried out for my city’s recreational team. At first, I did not make the team, as I had not mastered the art of staying on top of the water, and I would have been a liability to the coaches and lifeguards; however, I persevered. I spent most of that year trying my best in swimming lessons, and eventually, I was able to stay afloat. Although my swimming technique resembled that of a shark attack victim fighting his way out of the water, the coaches in my recreational swim team saw potential in me and gave me a spot on the team. From then on, I moved to my city’s club team and climbed up the progressive ladder that is swimming. Today, because I followed my interest in swimming so persistently, I am blessed to be able to represent my school on its varsity swimming team and go far beyond my limit in my

“Do not give up the beginning is always the hardest... keep moving forward !!!” - Riza Budiman. I want to inspire people. I want people to look at me and say, “Because of YOU, I didn't give up.” So no. I am not giving up, not for anything. It is not okay to give up even though you're going to lose.

After the first year in my community college, my older brother recommended me to join a swimming class with him over the summer quarter. I hesitated, despite knowing that I cannot permanently escape from learning how to swim in my life. Thus, I took the challenge to get to swim.

I started swimming when I was about three years old at the local park district. At one of my lessons, I argued with the instructor and refused to go underwater. My instructor became so frustrated and impatient with me that she forcibly dunked me underwater, unexpectedly. I can still remember the fear associated with being dunked; that same fear has influenced my choices in so many ways that people cannot understand. I refused to go in a pool for three years after that day and my argumentative nature left as well. Then, in fourth grade, my fear subsided at one of my friend’s practices. I remember watching the water glisten and knew that I was meant to swim, so I did. I promptly went home, shocked my parents by joining the swim team, and I have been swimming ever since, but it has not been easy. I swim in spite of fear…until an inexplicable feeling of panic that rushes over me and I become three again. Anxiety has prevented me from racing, even this year, and my

I began to recall the many years swimming has been a part of my life. When I was eight years old, my mom signed me up for our local summer swimming league, and that summer I realized that I loved to swim. When summer rolled around every year, I was so excited to start swimming again. When I entered into the seventh grade, I started swimming for my middle school’s swim team. At that point in my life, I swam for fun. Even though we competed in meets, I wasn’t a very competitive person until the my eighth grade year. In eighth grade, I began to take competing seriously and tried to focus on improving my times. I even joined Crawfish Aquatics, a swimming program that trains you on the off-season, that year. Then, I was given some devastating news.

One day, my mom decided to have me take swimming lessons at the public pool. I had the idea, as many preteens do, swim lessons were just for babies. I expected I’d be stuck with a group of tiny young toddlers that didn’t know a thing when it came to swimming. I thought they would not even have a clue how to do a simple doggy paddle; plus, in my mind, I was a perfectly fine swimmer.

Everyone needs to have hope in themselves, even when the chances are that a comet could fall right down on you when you are watering your plants. It is true that when someone just gives up and doesn’t believe, then they will just give up on everything and everything will just keep getting worse and worse. So if I just keep on trying to reach the top of the ladder, than I could become the next basketball star, or I could create a business better than Walmart. It is good in life to fail sometimes instead of just always succeeding, because that makes you tougher inside and keeps you from giving up and losing hope. Overall, it would make me a better human

Be careful as to what you forcefully change in your life, lest you disrupt God’s divine path to your promise land.

By implementing determination, never allow failure to be a discouragement. For instance, a historical figure named Thomas Edison tried multiple times to invent the light bulb, but was unsuccessful. Because of his determination, he did not allow that to make him give up, yet he allowed those failed attempts to encourage him to go above and beyond, and eventually he invented the first light bulb and made history. This example was to enlighten not to allow one failed attempt to become a discouragement, but yet an encouragement to do better. Like Edison once stated, “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

Giving up means to accept a failure. Giving up can have psychological, physical and emotional consequences. It breaks our spirit, makes up hopeless and depressed. Many conditions such as high blood pressure from stress and lower immunity can arise from our decision to give up. The problem is the way our society tends to see failure. It is widely considered to be a very negative, ugly experience. I believe that every failure is an opportunity to learn. After each failure we are richer with knowledge and experience. We get an opportunity to see things differently and to take a different approach in solving our problems. Think of scientists who spend decades developing their theories. I am sure they fail many, many times until they succeed. If

Never give up. God deals you a hand. Sometimes it’s a good hand, sometimes not. It’s up to you to make it a winning hand.