Blue's UnBashful Blog: Hold on for one More Day!

I used to dance up and down the driveway to this song, with my "skip it" ( that painfully cool device that beat up my ankles). I blasted this song on my Walkman or pocket rocker and I loved the message in this song, the message that we are resilient and that we are responsible for our own happiness. It was so empowering. Even as a kid in the single digits, I got it and I loved the message. Today, however many years later, I'm digging myself up from rock bottom and this song comes to mind. Some days it feels like I am walking through waist deep mud, with a chain looped around my waist with someone pulling me from behind so as not to move forward. I'm doing this all while carrying a ton of bricks above head, with my eyes blindfolded and my hands tied behind my back, while a rainstorm pounds down on me. That's how it feels most days trying to get out of bed . But, I always hold on for one more day, regardless of how much I want to quit. I have wanted to quit so many times and those demons cheered and continue to cheer for me to quit, reassuring me relief. I tried but I could never follow through, mostly because of my family and because I am not a quitter, but also because....I had to hold on for one more day. I tell myself, "one more day". My body was defeated and my mind was cashed out, but my spirit/ my soul, that 1% told me to hold on for one more day. And so I did. No one knows what your rock bottom feels like, no knows nor understands your breaking point, no one knows your despair, no one knows your fight. No one knows what makes you tick, what makes you want to stop, that is all on you and it's different for all of us. I am climbing up a slippery glacier with little support and I don't know where the top is and I don't know where I am going, but I will hold on for one more day. I will hold on because I know that I am resilient and I know that I am tenacious, and I know that if I hold on for one more day I will make it! Sometimes we can't adjust our sails or we don't know how to adjust our sails in the stormy waves of life, sometimes we have to brace ourselves and just barrel through it, go with it, feel it, accept it and wait for that storm to pass, take the beating and hold on for one more day. There is an Irish saying in a favorite restaurant of mine, "Free Beer Tomorrow. Hold one for one more day, you never know what will happen, just hold on!

Hold On

By Wilson Phillips

I know there's pain
Why do lock yourself up in these chains?
No one can change your life except for you
Don't ever let anyone step all over you
Just open your heart and your mind
Is it really fair to feel this way inside?

Some day somebody's gonna make you want to
Turn around and say goodbye
Until then baby are you going to let them
Hold you down and make you cry
Don't you know?
Don't you know things can change
Things'll go your way
If you hold on for one more day
Can you hold on for one more day
Things'll go your way
Hold on for one more day

You could sustain
Or are you comfortable with the pain?
You've got no one to blame for your unhappiness
You got yourself into your own mess
Lettin' your worries pass you by
Don't you think it's worth your time
To change your mind?

I know that there is pain
But you hold on for one more day and
Break free the chains
Yeah I know that there is pain
But you hold on for one more day and you
Break free, break from the chains

Don't you know things can change
Things'll go your way
If you hold on for one more day
If you hold on
Can you hold on
Hold on baby
Won't you tell me now
Hold on for one more day 'Cause
It's gonna go your way

Don't you know things can change
Things'll go your way
If you hold on for one more day
Can't you change it this time

Make up your mind
Hold on
Hold on
Baby hold on

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