A Walking Nike Advertisement

Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to. Whether it be for yourself, peer or stranger...sometimes you have to do things you don't want to. You get to a point in your life when coasting by just doesn't cut it anymore. The things you currently partake in are productive, but you're not being challenged hard enough. No one is standing in the background pushing you. Sometimes you have to push yourself because no one else is there to do it. So you push yourself and you get to where you need to be.
The times when you feel weak and you have to crawl inside yourself because no one else "gets it" have their benefits. Once you have enough breakdowns you learn how to pick yourself up and move forward. Sometimes you need to hit the lows enough times that you get so sick of being stuck in these moments of shit that refuse to even get close to feeling that way again. Sometimes you have to pick yourself up because no one else is going to. So you pick yourself up. You tell yourself you're going to be fine and live on your own terms...to hell with anyone who doesn't oblige.
Sometimes you have to be strong for yourself in order to be strong for others. Sometimes you don't want to muster up the will power and would rather just become complacent, but you'll never learn and you'll never grow. Sometimes you have to be strong when no one else is going to be, even if you're feeling weak. So you push yourself and you pick yourself up and you become strong because you don't have a choice. You have nothing but yourself.