Perseverance is a noun, meaning, to do something despite delay in reaching a personal goal.
Tenacity, diligence, dedication…to be relentless and single-minded…having determination and staying power.
It reminds me of a friend’s email address…dedicated always.
To have tunnel vision regardless of obstacles tossed in your path.
A word that rings true to me, since I have it in spades, inherited from my mother’s side of the family who exuded commitment.
A trait I’ve never thought a lot about till recently, due to my many sudden challenges.
It’s not easy to keep going, no matter what…to have focus and vigilance. I remember watching my mother soldier on after burying both her parents she never left, even after marrying my father, since they shared our two-family house.
She’d cry, mop the floor, stuff a chicken, then cry some more.
I too sob in motion.
At my worst moment I’m paying a bill, doing my nails or putting laundry away (or writing an essay), tears, coming along for the ride.
It doesn’t matter what’s put in front of you if you’re blessed with perseverance, the steam you need to keep chugging along.
To be uncompromising, unstoppable, continuous no matter what, is a pretty fine quality to work towards.
To quote Winston Churchill…if you’re going through hell, keep going.
A thin girl’s two cents.
SB
I have commitment and some perseverance; however, my is not the everlasting kind. I will chug on and on, working and trying, then, at some point, I may just decide – To Heck with it. Then I move on and try hard not to regret my decision. It has gotten me through many problems in life and I don’t find myself regretting many of them now. I do admire your tenacity.
Scott
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You’ve been through some challenges yet here you still are, so I think you wear tenacity pretty well persevering as you go with great resiliency, to bring in Dale’s word of the day.
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Thank you. Much appreciated.
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Dearest Perseverant Thin Girl,
It’s a good word. It’s a positive word. You are blessed to have it as part of your DNA.
Somehow over the years, I have been assigned the word “resilience”: the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness
I was feeling the two were similar yet not, so of course, I’ve spent the last little while with my friend Google and found this:
Resilience is defined as “An ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change” and Perseverance is defined as “The continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition.”
I guess both are good to have, eh?
Have a fabulous day,
Lotsa love,
The Resilient Broad
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One word leads to another, like thoughts and books. The adage: whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger has always bewildered me yet the concept of staying one’s course doesn’t. Perseverance, resiliency, right foot, left foot all blend together like sign posts. To borrow from Mr. Churchill once again…never, never give up. Appreciate what you wrote. Thoughtful and apt. 💃🏻
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Yes indeed. Your thoughtful post got me thinking. That adage exists because damn if it ain’t true.
Churchill had so many good quotes.
Thank you and keep on keeping on!
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Right sneaker, left sneaker.
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⛸⛸ (since it’s an icy mess up here…)
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OOPS Right boot, left boot.
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Ha ha! Sneaker, boot, skate. Whatever works, I say!
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Tenacity is great, so long as you’re on the right road. You have to drift in the breeze, before you set your sails. None of us has a map for life. None of us can see past the horizon.
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You said it there Ducky. It’s an art to keep on keep’in on no matter what.
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We’ve been two years keepin’ on leaving the EU. Doggedly committed to do something, without first agreeing what the something is. We have a new “deadline” of Hallowe’en. If this story was presented as a work of fiction, folk would reject it as ridiculously implausible.
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With all due respect, you’ve lost me Mick.
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PS Easy does it.
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Susannah, I like the word persistence but gravitate toward tenacity. Although practically identical, tenacity creates a picture in my mind of fighting against the odds, while persistence is the little engine that could. Funny how two similar words conjure up different images within each of us.
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You can tell I’m out of it this morning. I kept writing persistence when I meant to write perseverance.
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I didn’t even notice, so how’s that?
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You’re the English teacher so you should know. Love…the little engine that could. Wraps the whole thing up like a little pulp package. 🙂
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SB,
You’ve got a way of stitching thoughts together that speaks to this perseverance of yours. Good writing submerges a writer’s mind into the story they wish to tell, but great writing submerges the reader’s mind into that very same story. You achieve the latter, beautifully.
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Why thank you Mr. Imma. Would make a great blurb for that book I’m gonna write before I die.
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If you’re gonna write a book, I wanna be a blurb on the wall . ..
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I love how you romance woids, you wooing wordsmith you.
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If you’re gonna dance with ’em, you might as well do the tango. 😉
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I couldn’t agree more. 🙂
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You are my most trusted Chief of Staff, after all.
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I’m happy to be your CJ Craig. 🙎🏻♀️
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The honor is all mine. ✌️
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Thank you Mr. Imma. 🙏
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To you, a pretty peep with purpose, poise and palenty of persistence.
Peace
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Now thats what I call an alliteration.
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Peach!
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There are many areas where I find that word applicable when I was a young boy I should was getting up early in the morning delivering my newspapers always finding something to do . Through teenage years Working various jobs palisades amusement park , warehouses , mopping the floors in the local diner . The ability to have the freedom to work meant a lot to me add always trying to do the best job I could that was perseverance to me . I find it sadly lacking in the world today I coming to contact with so many people that don’t want to work don’t like to work and don’t know their jobs they faint , throw in the towel. And it carries over into other areas of their lives bigger commitment bigger responsibilities. If I feel I do a half assed job if I feel like I let my family down it’s torturous me in my head the worst times in my life where when work ws scarce and those are times where I had to persevere on faith . Thank God that he perseveres In his faithfulness and goodness
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Last night I took a walk after dark
A swingin’ place called Palisades Park
To have some fun and see what I could see
That’s where the girls are
I took a ride on a shoot the chute
That girl I sat beside was awful cute
And after while she was holdin’ hands with me
My heart was flyin’ up like a rocket ship
Down like a roller coaster
Back like a loop the loop
And around like a merry go round
We ate and ate at a hot dog stand
We danced around to a rockin’ band
And when I could, I gave that girl a hug
In the tunnel of love
You’ll never know how great a kiss can feel
When you stop at the top of a ferris wheel
When I fell in love down at Palisades Park
We ate and ate at a hot dog stand
We… 🙂
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Sorry if that came out a little mangled I was typing while sitting on a moving truck
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No Problem.
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Your imagery is wonderful. Made me remember being a kid, my father at the wheel driving down the Merritt Parkway, and you could see the roller coaster on the Jersey side. It was the most exciting thing to see. The Elvis of amusement parks.
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Worth more then two cents!😸
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Three? Alright, a nickel. 😊
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Persistence is one of the most important traits to have for success, I think, more than talent. I would say the best things to have are compassion, wisdom and persistence, all of which I think you have a lot of. 🙂
your friend
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That’s such a sweet thing to say David, thanks. We try to be noble though often stumbling, to try to always do better, like Ms Angelou so beautifully suggests.
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