Just Keep Swimming...

THURSDAY, APRIL 2nd - 2009

Have you ever had one of those days where you feel like your drowning?  Where everything is too much to handle and you just want to give up?  That's how I felt today.  

Every time I felt like I wanted to give up, I would hear this little voice in the back of my mind:

"Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming, swimming..."

Dory from Finding Nemo is one of my all time favorite Disney characters.  One of my favorite parts in the movie is when Marlin (Nem0's dad) is really upset and frustrated and wants to give up.  The ever cheerful Dory says to him: "When life gets you down, you know what you gotta do?  Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming, swimming."

She says it in this sort of sing-song voice.  For some reason that has stuck with me.  It's become my motto.  I say it all of the time to Joe.  When he complains or gets upset about something he doesn't want to do, I respond with "just keep swimming."

So, I didn't give up (even though I really really wanted to).  I just kept swimming.  Some days it's harder to swim than others.