Perseverance

It's the second month of the new year and I've already faced the challenge of perseverance.  Wounded a bit from a recent stack of words thrown at me without concern from a employing lead, yet I bounced back with resilience to understand who I am, and not be pushed to give up because of a mere stack of words.  Yes, words -damaging or embarrassing words do hurt, but perseverance through to the other side of those words is but a mere step up away from the temporary source from which I was targeted in the frustration of that person's immediate discomfort.  I shouldn't have been the target of their frustration, yet the shock if felt to fluently communicate (maybe as they thought, or with what they wanted to hear) after their initial reaction to a remote task that wasn't resolved, may me a target of their frustration. For a moment I felt stupid, but I knew what the complexity of the task was, they had no clue.  Nevertheless, I completed the task hours with reception of "thanks" from the persons that had patience with me to find the resolve. A more pressing task apart from the remote one, is still not complete, even as of this hour, but I persist, to succeed.  The task is minor to me because of my knowledge of the skill and the small technicality that it poses from the essence of it's origin, which is far greater and adeptly, finely and meticulously engineered.  My task is to make the project that I'm indirectly leading, work for the technical community within which I have been trusted to provide for first and then for the project completed to be properly tested, approved by the managing counsel and then deployed with confidence that the task has been detailed, secured and given the highest technical approval from those who out tenure me in age, wisdom in dealing with the community and with the best professionally-technical edge form a seriously recognized educating entity among the leading within our country.  Educated, moral, sound in thought, moving for better economics, building a business with reputable track record, yet flawed in a developing character of courage amongst those who misunderstand and only have a surface view of the true nature of your potential.  Yet the determination to continue to succeed, educate and push forward there's a moment of self-disgust, wishing for a better grasp academically, socially, but never giving in to the status-quo and yet building strength in personal character with as much integrity as possible. Perseverance is the key for excelling through the most difficult of self-limitations, for we are our own worst critics and judges of our own inadequacies in comparison to others and their gifts, which make them unique. Remembering that I too am unique, fearfully and wonderfully made by the hands of God, crafted and gifted to do only what He knew from the foundations of of the world that only we as men and women could do. Our gift of personality and mentoring from those who reared us, loved us, from those we learned from, were mentored by and educated by. Class, race, ethnicity, affluence and lack thereof have pushed each of us, made us persevere, fail, get-up, dust-off and try again. We persevere, I persevere we embrace the reality of persevering through obstacles, difficulties, challenges, personal limitations and fears and press through to reach our goals, fulfill aspirations, encourage others (in the right manner and with the right mindset) to persevere.