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What Drives You?

What Keeps you going?

Sara Burdick
5 min readOct 28, 2021
Photo by Sarah Ardin on Unsplash

Sometimes it just feels too hard, doesn’t it?

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger” - Friedrich Nietzsche

But what do you do when you are at the kill stage.

The part in your life where you do not feel like moving any more. The days where the only thing that gets you out of bed is because you have to pee or you are starving.

We all have these days don’t we?

Mabye not, maybe it is just me. Sometimes I think about where I am at in my life and wonder how did I get here.

Was it because I got throught the parts of life that were hard, the parts that I thought is this what it means to be barely functioning?

What is that driving force in your life when you aren’t pushed up against a wall?

When I hated my job and the only desire to quit was because I was so miserable I just pushed through the pain, the tired the stress of working a million hours.

I knew this would push me to the next phase of my life.

When I was in a marriage that I was being mentally abused. I knew what I had to do to get out. So I survived, and pushed…

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Sara Burdick
Sara Burdick

Written by Sara Burdick

I quit the rat race after working as a nurse for 16 years. Travel and Storyteller. I live in Colombia. https://substack.com/@saraburdick

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