Perseverance Pays Off for Single Parents The best thing about hitting rock bottom is that the only way left to go is up. But when you hit rock bottom, it is not like a spring where you immediately bounce back up from all your troubles and worries. You do not immediately become the most successful person after being broken down. One tends to roll around on rock bottom for a while, losing remnants of one's past self. You start feeling and becoming an empty cup- waiting to be filled. The reason why you feel this way is because of the expectations that society gives you and the expectations that you give yourself. One has to understand that even though these expectations do exist, one must remember to stay true to oneself because that is the only way for them to stay sane. But even if it starts to drive you borderline crazy, you still have to remain persistent. You should not back down- for your family, for your loved ones, and most of all, for yourself. You should still persevere because like riding a bicycle, you know that when you stop paddling, you will fall, so you just have to keep taking step after step despite your loss of will and your feeling of exhaustion. The life of a single parent will never be easy. You have to deal with countless jobs, stress, and bills. Your problems pile up like there is no tomorrow. But there is a tomorrow, and sooner or later, these problems will topple over you and you will not be able to hold everything up anymore. It is like carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders. Alone. You will question everything, you will wonder why you chose the decisions you have made and doubt everyone and everything in life. But you will not give up because you cannot give up. This is how single parents persevere. Perseverance entails not giving up even when problems continue to arise. It means facing your problems head on and dealing with them in the most mature way possible. Simply because they know that they have no time to cry over things that do not go their way. Instead, these people calculate the problem and find the best solution to solve this problem. They know that it is indeed difficult, but they know that in the end, all of their struggles will be worth it. Perseverance is the one value holding you back from running away when you are thrown into an ocean of obstacles. It is the one thing that makes you pump your legs to stay afloat despite these treacherous waters trying to drown you. It is in perseverance that we remember the value of the small bits of happiness that comes around. These bits and pieces of happy memories encourage the single parent to continue fighting the problem. If perseverance is not present in the single parent, then the adult will have a difficult time carrying the weight and fate of their child on their shoulders. It will become burdensome for them to do little tasks because now they will use their child as an excuse to go against their own morals just to find an easy way out of things. But the easy way is not always the best way, people who do not know how to persevere will constantly live with regret in their eyes, disappointment in their lips, and insecurities in their ears. A single parent who perseveres has no time for regret because they know how to take responsibility for their actions and actually do something instead of just wallowing and mourning over their old mistakes and self-centered acts in the past. They do not look for an easy way out because they stay true to themselves and their morals as a human being.
And even if they feel like they have lost themselves at the start, single parents start to find themselves not in the problems but the way they act in a certain situation that highlights their morals as a person and as a parent. To persevere means to persist even if problems are present, to resist going against their own morals, and to exist despite carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders.