How To Never Give Up On Anything In Life

Never Give Up On Anything

Are you the type to just give up or to pursue until you succeed? Do you have the resilience in yourself to never give up? Well here’s how to never give up on anything through an avocado seed experiment.

Avocado Experiment

Before the pandemic started, our family did an experiment with an avocado seed. We wanted to try growing an avocado tree so we started a project. We started off by googling a bunch of ideas to see what the best way to start was and found the perfect one. They said to put four toothpicks into the seed and to put it in a cup filled with water. The toothpicks need to be in a certain angle so that they can sit in the cup without falling in.

The bottoms of the seed needs to always be under water. We were to change the water every 4-7 days to keep it fresh. And within 4-8 weeks, we should see a sprout.Well those were some long 8 weeks because nothing happened after the 8 weeks. Nor 12weeks, then 16 weeks and 5 months passed.

I changed the water as directed and made sure the bottom of the seed was always submerged under water but nothing was happening. It did however have some strong roots which kept it still going. There was no sprout in sight. I felt discouraged at first, but I was not going to give up on our family experiment.

When I finally examined the seed, there were bunch of rotted sprouts inside that were just bunched up together. One rotted sprout pulled down another and another and another. Nothing was able to grow because the rotted sprouts were suppressing the other. So I gently pulled off the rotted ones hoping it would help, but then it made the seed break in half and I was devastated.

I felt hopeless because I didn’t think it would ever grow anything at all now. But then I thought of wrapping the two halves together with a rubber band and see if it will hold together. The thought of never give up kept pondering through my head. I placed a tight rubber band around the seed hoping that it will hold its place. I was pretty disappointed and felt hopeless that the avocado tree journey would come to an end.

Miracle

What happened next was just a pure miracle. A week and a half passed by and what do you know. A single sprout snuck up above the others and made its way up. It was ALIVE! The sprout never gave up and pushed its way over. I was almost in tears of excitement. All those days of waiting and waiting for the sprout to come out and not giving up made a huge different.

Even through a break, and the rotted sprouts, that one little friend managed to push its way out passed the others. How amazing is that? Then another week passed and the sprout got bigger, and now it’s as big as the picture. We are ready to place it in a pot soon and hope that the change won’t be too traumatic for the seed.

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Deeper Meaning Then Expected

This small project created so much deeper meaning than when we initially started the project. Watching something struggle to make it’s way out is something that people face as well. Many people struggle on a daily basis whether it be financial, social, emotional, physical, or mental and they will have days where they just want to give up.

Some days are rough and some are rougher. It’s easy to give up on hope and think that things will never get better. But hey, just like this avocado seed never gave up, and I never gave up on it, your moment of time will come. I struggle with my own problems and giving up would be the easiest solution, but no way. Just like the song Never Give Up by Sia.

There is so much more to life than it seems. Be patient and things will happen the way it’s meant to be. This little avocado tree just made that statement so true. We will soon be transferring it to a pot of soil and pray that it will continue to grow well.

We will continue the journey with the avocado seed, just as people continue their journey in life. Just because things might get tough, never give up. Think of giving extra care and attention and a brighter days of sunshine will come.

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Inspirational Quotes On Never Giving Up

• “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

• “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” ~ Albert Einstein

• “There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.” ~ Stephen Hawking

• “The secret to life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” ~ Paulo Coelho

• “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” ~ Nelson Mandela

• “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’” ~Eleanor Roosevelt

• “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” ~ Helen Keller

• “If you work hard and meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead, no matter where you come from, what you look like or who you love.” ~ Barack Obama

• “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not the attainment; full effort is full victory.” – Mahatma Gandhi

• “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” ~ Winston Churchill

• “Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass… it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” ~ William Shakespeare

• “Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!” ~Sylvester Stallone

• “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying…“Failing to try is like trying to fail.” ~ Michael Jordan

• “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” ~ Harriet Beecher Stow

• “I just never, ever want to give up. Most battles are won in the 11th hour, and most people give up. If you give up once, it’s quite hard. If you give up a second time, it’s a little bit easier. Give up a third time, it’s starting to become a habit.” ~ Lewis Gordon Pugh

• “Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn’t deal with.” ~ Brett Favre

• “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.” ~ Randy Pausch

• “We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.” ~ John Newton

• “What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning – and some of them many times over – what do you find? That you can swim? Well – life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!” ~ Alfred Adler