Character Lives in the Trying

Life is full of losing.

I’ve picked myself up and dusted myself off more times than I could recount if I tried.

But, it’s fine.

No other choice, so far as I can see.

But not everybody operates this way.

What makes a good character from a bad character - or having good character from having bad character?

You keep trying.

Not succeeding.

OK, not JUST succeeding, so -

Probably failing.

Some.

But getting back up, and doing it again, or something else, and mostly, not giving up wanting to exert some effort.

My wife and I actually just finished our start-to-finish rewatch of Friday Night Lights, but this quote won’t leave me:

I think it’s because I’ve known too many people who weren’t into trying.

They’re into complaining or wining or winning/declaring victory in victimhood.

They’re bad characters in my story.

I can accept it now.

The people who won’t stop trying though, they’re something else.

I told my wife, before we started off on this crawl through 5 seasons of Texas high school soap opera football, “At our best, and a little at our worst, the Taylors remind me of us.”

I know why.

It’s the character.

It’s in the try.

Across all of the domains.

Life is still full of losing.

So what.

Try.