Don’t try to run away from your troubles. Overcome them. Prevail right where you are.
What we’re really after is not to escape from our complexities and frustrations, but to triumph over them. And one of the best ways to accomplish that is to get on course and stay there.
Identify your goal, the thing you want most to do, the place in life you want most to reach. See it clearly in your mind’s eye just as you can envision the airport in Florida when you board your plane in London.
Like a great ship in a storm, just keep your heading and your engines running. The storm will pass, although sometimes it seems that it never will. One bright morning you’ll find yourself passing the harbor light. Then you can give a big sigh of relief and rest a while, and almost before you know it, you’ll find your eyes turning seaward again. You’ll think of a new harbor you’d like to visit, a new voyage upon which to embark. And once again, you’ll set out.
That’s just the way this funny-looking, two-legged, curious, imaginative, tinkering, dreamer called a human being operates.
You escape from problems not by running away from them, but by overcoming them. And no sooner do you overcome one set of problems, but you start looking around for new and more difficult pickles to get into and out of !
