courage and resolve; strength of character
clench (the teeth), especially in order to keep one’s resolve when faced with an unpleasant or painful duty.
It’s been the word of the year for me and will continue to be for this year as well I feel. I don’t consider myself a courageous type person, or really someone who has a ton of character, but resolve. Well resolve is something I’ve held dear to for all my life.
Resolve would define me just as much as my struggle used to truly define me and still plagues me today. Grit it seems is not just a word of the year for me but my life’s testimony. And not an outward grit facing insurmountable odds or any other great obstacle of life to persevere on. But an inward grit to simply carry on.
To breathe, to wake up, to get out of bed, to not give up on life. To constantly take a step forward even though it feels like I’m constantly going backwards. This is no great romance, just a fight to live a life and see it through to the end.
To fulfill a promise, a vow, to live for those who never got to see the chance to live a full life. And where I might have wanted so bad to trade places, I live on, if not for me, at least for their memories, for their legacies.
This will be no grand life I live in the bigger picture of everything. But it is my life, my story, my truth. All I can live is my truth and that happens to come with much grit.