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Carry on

            Considered to be one of, or if not the best basketball player in history, Michael Jordan in his sophomore year did not make the basketball team. Michael didn’t give up and chose to carry on. He later made the varsity team and helped lead the team to win a state championship. Michael went from a short kid who couldn’t even make the basketball team, to now, one of the best, most acknowledged players to ever play in the NBA. Michael has won 6 NBA championship titles, 5 MVP trophies, and 2 Olympic gold medals in his career (Inspirational Quotes). Michael was able to achieve all this by carrying on and not quitting. The concept behind “carrying on” is to pursue, to chase, and to push through whatever obstacles come in the way and do whatever it takes to succeed. Carrying on can be dealt with in many situations in life, emotionally, physically and also a big one, financially carrying on. 

            In life people go through and experience many different feelings and thoughts. This is all part of the emotional well being in one’s life. Emotionally carrying on can be a huge benefit in emotionally having a better life. People face hard times such as when family members pass away or a break up in a relationship occurs. Things like death and break ups can really affect a person emotionally. If one decided to quit or just give up when dealing with or moving past these tough situations, it can lead to severe depression, anxiety and even suicidal thoughts (Medicine Net). Suicide is the third leading cause of death in people aged 15 to 24 (Teen Suicide). Most of the causes are from emotional troubles. If a person chooses to carry on in tough emotional situations, better things will come from it. Carrying on will also help the person to move on with life and make them a stronger person in the future ahead of them. A person can recover and learn from their emotional troubles, and turn the negative emotions into positive, up lifting emotions and thoughts.

            There have been many great success stories with carrying on physically. Michael Jordan and other great sports stars have been living proof of what carrying on physically can do for you. When a person wants to get faster or stronger or become healthier, and choose to quit or give up, the person will not be successful in achieving any of it. The person will not see any positive gains, and will more than likely fail at whatever goal the person is trying to reach. When a person decides to carry on in physical situations, success is the only thing going their way. In order to do so, one must push through the pain and run or lift heavier weights or eat healthy food. Also dealing with physical pain, a person can carry on and make efforts to fix the pain by stretching, exercising or recovering from surgery.           

            A topic highly conversed about in the world is finances. Finances or money is what runs the world today. Without money, it is difficult to live or do much in the world today. When people carry on financially great things can also come from doing so. When people quit or give up financially, it leads to people becoming unhappy or unsatisfied. There are people, who are happy with having little to no money, but that’s their choice. For the majority of people, having more money can help buy the things they want such as cars, houses, clothes or any other desired items. Financially carrying on by working harder or working two jobs or saving money is what is needed to meet the wants of a person. Carrying on instead of quitting financially, can help a person get what they want or dream of having.

            Carrying on is all up to the individual. To choose to carry on or quit, is all in the mind. Carrying on has lead to the success of many people who have chosen to do so. Successful and happy people don’t get to where they are by quitting or giving up. The successors carried on and pushed through whatever was thrown their way. The decision to carry on can be life changing for many people. For others it may just be simple by feeling happier or feeling better about themselves emotionally or physically. Whichever way a person chooses to carry on, it will lead to success and to better out comes.