Have Some Tea

Never give up; you never know until you try.

There's a quote, attributed to several people, that compares people to tea bags, asserting that like teabags, we grow stronger in hot water and don't know how strong we are until we're in hot water.

I'm always telling people that they're stronger than they know, and I've had people say that to me during or after a crisis situation.  I guess when we're tunneled in, hunkered down, trying to navigate through something tough, we can be so in "survival mode" that we wonder if we're strong enough to meet the challenge. 

Henry David Thoreau is quoted as saying, "It's not what you look at that matters; it's what you see."

I believe that, but I guess we've all been in places so scary that we not only didn't feel how strong we were, we didn't feel able to see anything except the issue we were trying to survive devolving into something even worse. 

Sometimes options are all around, and we're so caught up in fear, frustration, and/or fatigue that we miss them.  When that happens, stop and have a cup of tea.  Take a few deep breaths and ponder how much you're like the beverage you're drinking.