It is okay to take a break to catch your breath and get yourself together! It's okay to stay out of the game for a while to re-strategize, re-energize yourself. Life is very personal, and as long as you understand that you are in no competition with anyone but your past, you will be able to deal better with the pressures and challenges that come to you (and we all) from time to time.
Life is full of challenges! It is part of growing, without them we don't grow and nobody wants to remain a baby for life, what will you be living for? So yeah, challenges do come and we have to get prepared ahead of them in order to surmount them. However, there are times that seem as though the situations are overwhelming and require a greater deal of strength to pull through. At this time, you are not going to be bothered about who is doing what next door, or who is celebrating their newest milestone - that's not to say you become a saddist or a kill-joy, No, it just means that you are more focused on getting past your current phase and coming out stronger than what's trying to beat you.
In these times you might even have to shut yourself in, shut the world out and get into the silence, protect your mind, your heart, direct your focus, get busy about that change you want to see. This times will have you proving to yourself and nobody else that you are strong enough to surmount whatever it is. Others may label you down and out, inactive or drawn back, but you are fighting, fighting in the silence what will speak great volumes in the open when you win. So it doesn't matter. Fight! Fight till you win.
You've got to fight your fight! Nobody will fight for you! And to win, you need to fight right, you need the right materials, you can't be listening to just anything. Because most of these fights we have to win are within, we got to fight from the inside out. Your winning depends on the quality of your Spirit and soul. Hence, you need to invest the right materials into them, saturate your whole soul with things that charge you up from within, that lifts you up, and strengthen your will to fight and win. Then you give vent to the fighter within your soul and spirit and refuse to bow, refuse to give up or give in, until you see the change that you desire.
There is a fighter in you, and by God and in Him you have the power to change whatever that situation is that needs changing. Do not be at the mercy of life and circumstances. God made you for more. Prove your worth! And your world would celebrate your victories!
It is not about the dog in the fight, it is about THE FIGHT IN THE DOG! You are strong enough to beat that thing!
Stay Switched On, Stay Switched Up!