i won\'t give up

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Sanai United States. Sep 08 2008 10:52. Posts 643

So I'm in Mongolia...

I made it through Peace Corps training, which was pretty much 10 weeks living in a tiny village with no stable electricity, no running water (fetched it from a well every day), no Internet/phone, mosquitoes and bugs everywhere, huge dust storms everyweek, bad food, no showers (bathed in a bucket), and outhouses (you don't wanna know...). But I made it. And I'm officially a PC volunteer now permanently serving in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar.

Luckily, that means I get internet so I started back on the grind a little while ago, back at NL5 where I left off... sad part is I've been experiencing a shitty downswing over the past few days. The fact that it's at NL5 of all places makes it worse...

But fuck it. Can't stop, won't stop. I will study harder, adapt faster, work harder. Tomorrow, I'm grinding NL2 till I hit 25BI for NL5 again and re-starting this shit.

For all my fellow poker bros who are going through some hard times, here are some inspirational quotes from my collection (I collect quotes from people, speeches, books, musical lyrics, film dialogue, etc.) to cheer us up:

“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe

"I can do it." - Francisco D'Anconia (from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged)

"We work hard. We bring home the money." - The Greatest Game Ever Played

"Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe." - Claudia Black

"Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not – nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not - unrewarded genius is almost legendary; Education will not – the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and Determination alone are omnipotent." – President Calvin Coolidge

"If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Remember one thing: through every dark night, there’s a bright day after that. So matter how hard it gets, stick your chest out, keep your head up, and handle it.” – Tupac Amaru Shakur

And a couple in honor of this game we all love:

CUTTY: The game done changed...
SLIM: Game's the same, just got more fierce. – The Wire

"Is it a reasonable thing, I ask you, for a grown man to run about and hit a ball? Poker's the only game fit for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man's, and every man's is against yours. Teamwork? Who ever made a fortune by teamwork? There's only one way to make a fortune, and that's to down the fellow who's up against you." – W. Somerset Maugham