Imagine you’re stranded in the desert. You’re thirsty, dry, hot, and vultures are circling your head. Just when you think you’ll die catastrophically out of dehydration, and have your eyes plucked out by you ugly feathered friends, you find an abandoned bottle making factory. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DESERT! WHAT ARE THE ODDS!? In this factory you find the rusty lever to your right. You examine it. You grab to make sure it’s real and not some hallucination, and in fact, it’s real. You take a closer look and you find that it’s connected to a pipe. You also notice that it has moss growing near the base. This could only mean one thing. WAAATER! You grab it with all you might and heave. But it doesn’t budge. Your long journey through this barren wasteland has weakened your body, but not your soul. You give it another try, but this time you focus all your will power in that single motion. You grab the lever, and give it your all. The lever refuses to move, but you’re stronger than that. You shift your position, spread your feet so as to cover more ground and have more force. Then, you try again, and you will keep on trying until you accomplish your objective because your life depends on it. This time the lever starts moving, but barely a few millimeters. You break into a cold sweat, and every inch of your body is shaking. You know it’s hard and you feel like giving up, but you’ve gotten this far, so why stop now!? The will to split that son-of-a-gun lever DRIVES you. It’s your engine. FINALLY, the lever SNAPS with loud clanck, and PRESTO! The lever is switched on, and water is flowing like Niagara Falls. YOUR SAVED!

When faced with a problem that doesn’t budge, we tend to simply give up and stop trying. Fighting the chance to yield is quite the pain in the neck. While this is acceptable since we’re human, PERSISTENCE is key. Could the rusty lever switch position? With enough will power, I believe so. Life is our rusty lever, and our will power is like the oil that’ll loosen those bolts. Defeat all your problems. FIGHT, MAN, FIGHT!

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