No one is going to come help you. No one's coming to save you. - David Goggins

We have to learn to stop looking for a sign that the hard time will end.

In the military we always say we don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training,

Time stood still as I realized for the first time that I’d always looked at my entire life, everything I’d been through, from the wrong perspective. Yes, all the abuse I’d experienced and the negativity I had to push through challenged me to the core, but in that moment I stopped seeing myself as the victim of bad circumstance, and saw my life as the ultimate training ground instead. My disadvantages had been callousing my mind all along and had prepared me for that moment in that pool with Psycho Pete.