resolute

Life puts all its weight into the punch and knocks the wind out of us. Some of us jump back up, wearing our scars proud as a mother fucker, ready for more. Some of us lie there, gathering our strength and licking our wounds before submitting ourselves to more brutality. Some of us learn to dodge the blows. Some of us anesthetize ourselves so we don't care that we're being hit.

The thing we have in common is the resolve to continue.