When you feel the odds are against you and everything is going wrong what keeps you going?

Answer 1

Ah thats very hard. I guess what keeps me going are the things that I HAVE to do, like be at work at a certain time, or honoring commitments i cannot break, but everything else falls apart. I stop talking to my friends and stop doing any activity, no matter how simple it is. Until someone gives me a kick in the butt and makes me pick myself up by the boot straps.
Very hard for me to keep going, am usually a pessimistic, expect the worst to be pleasantly surprised by what life brings, but when things are already bad and am pessimistic as it is, it only magnifies the severity of all that is going wrong.

Answer 2

Hope.

Listen to U2 - BEAUTIFUL DAY and the lyrics. No matter what you go through in life, it will always get better. Life's a rollercoaster, up and down. One minute your down and next up.

This is quoted from the Office...a comedy program but what a great message.

"Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don't know whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or on a peak until you're coming down. And that's it you know, you never know what's round the corner. But it's all good. 'If you want the rainbow, you've gotta put up with the rain.'

Answer 3

Knowing that life is full of peaks & valleys. When you feel at your lowest, the only way to go is UP. When you feel it couldn't get any worse, things are bound to get better.
As long as you keep trying to do the right thing, and try to do your best you'll be OK.

Answer 4

My faith. Without it I would have been a basket case long ago or had a nervous breakdown for all the tragic things that have happened to me this past year!

Answer 5

I remind myself that when things aren't going right, it's just a temporary thing and I cannot let this get me down. I stay focused and work harder to obtain my goals and in the end things work out.

Answer 6

FAITH
so keep the faith......................................