Motivation

This week we watched the movie King Williams with Will Smith in it. I got very emotional but probably not at the part that was intended for that. Will Smith's character, Richard Williams, gets literally and figuaratively beat down again and again and again.

There's a point where this motivates him just to push harder and be stronger. I felt so angry. Why do people have to be motivated this way, by long-term and overbearing adversity?

When is it enough and people get a little help pulling the monkeys off their backs? Why are some people in a situation where everyone and everything seems to be pulling them down but somehow they hang on through it all? There are others that seem to be in a similar situation but they have all the support in the world and sometimes that gets them through and sometimes even with all that support, they still give up while the person over there has no support but keeps on going-I don't understand any of this!

Is it all worth it? If it is, at what point do you know it's worth it? I'm not ready to throw in the towel or anything like that. I'm just tired of seeing how much adversity some must face without ever catching a break. Sometimes I'm tired of not knowing how to catch my own break. For the record, that show was incredible. I loved it!