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More often than not, what a lot of people see as an end is simply a bend but because they have not looked beyond what they tend to see, they will not see what lies ahead. At the end of the tunnel, as some people say, there is always light. However, what I believe is that you are the one to determine the end of the tunnel. More so, you must not keep waiting until the end of the tunnel before you can have your light. What this means is that you should create hope even in the midst of supposed hopelessness, so as to keep you going. When you have something to look up to or something to hope for, then giving up will not be an option. There is always a bend beyond the end.

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You are the only one that has the power to determine when it is over. If you refuse to give up, then it will not be over. You have to know that having challenges does not mean that you are a failure. That you have been knocked down by life does not mean that life has given you a knockout. As long as you can still rise from where you have fallen and give life another fair shot on target, then you are not a failure. However, if you decide to remain where life has knocked you down, then you have agreed with life that you are down. The choice on what to do in any situation rests on your shoulders. 

If you conclude that you are a failure, then success will be nonexistent. But if you resolve within your mind that you will succeed without a recourse to what life throws at you, then you are already on the pathway to achieving your desired success. Success or lack of it, is not entirely a function of what is happening in and around you, even though they may play a very pivotal role. Success is majorly a function of how you have responded to the very happenings in your life. For example, if life throws an egg at you, do you beat yourself over, and sulk about the fact that something of this nature would happen to you, or do you pick the yolk of the broken egg and make a delicious omelette? You have the choice.

You may not have had a choice of your background or your starting point because they are beyond what you could have influenced, but you definitely have a choice of how you will finish. In most cases than you can ever imagine, you are the only one that will determine the outcome of your life. You have to realise that things do not just begin to happen without any cause. This means that for something to happen, there is always a trigger or a cause, which will lead to action and to effect. If you do not like the way your life's journey is going, you should know that it is within your power to alter it.

In life, oppositions and challenges are inevitable but how you deal with them is the determinant of your success or not. Each time you feel like quitting, just remind yourself that you are already close to your moment of breakthrough. Of course, your next step might be all that will be required to achieve the success. So do not allow your last step to be your last, even when it seems like a "dead-end," keep moving and you will discover it was just a mirage. 

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How you live the moment will heavily determine how your future will look like, and will ultimately create the kind of future that you need.

The point at which you are about to give up might be the moment of your breakthrough, so keep up the spirit. If everyone was to quit at the sight of what they think is an end, they would not achieve anything worthwhile in life. It is by progressing beyond what others think is an end that you achieve the impossible and do the unimaginable. Always remember that something will continue to look impossible until actions are put to do what is thought to be impossible. I conclude with this statement:

> When it looks like an end, approach it and you will be amazed that it is only a bend.

***Thanks for reading***

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