The bleeding millipede

It was a cool evening in the school hostel where I went to see some friends. I was coming out of the hostel gate, discussing with a friend and enjoying the cool evening breeze. Looking at my right hand side, I saw a millipede struggling to keep it moving. I drew closer to see what was
really wrong with it, ow! Poor creature, its tail must have being crushed by someone. I pitied the poor creature as it
kept on struggling. I was there looking at it until it died. Now there was something inspiring about the millipede, despite the fact that it was bleeding, despite the fact that it was dieing, the millipede never stopped struggling to move on, it kept on struggling and struggling until it died.
Sometimes we feel like giving up. Sometimes we feel like we are not gonna make it, but let me tell you something, "Its never over until its over". Don't give up on yourself when God has never given up on you. Don't kill yourself before your time. It's never too late to start anew. It's never too late to achieve your ambitions in life. No matter how many times you fail, it doesn't matter but what matters a lot is how many times you got up and refused to give up. Thomas Edison failed thousands of times before he could produce light bulb. Ben Carson was one of the worst students if not the worst student in his class but today he is a celebrated neurosurgeon because his mother never gave up on him. Do you know that when the pressure to quit gets more unbearable is when you are few steps to your success. Your success is only measured by how many times you failed. Successful people are not successful because they never failed, but because they never stopped trying. If a dieing millipede could struggle to keep moving, why can't you struggle to make it in life. Winners are never limited by their weaknesses rather, they turn their weaknesses into inspiration. Tom Watson Sr. said,"If you want to succeed, double your failure rate."
      A man(Abraham Lincoln) once failed in business at the age of 21; defeated in a legislative race at the age of 22; failed in business again at the age of 24; lost his sweetheart at the age of 26; had a nervous breakdown at the age of 27; lost a congressional race at the age of 34; lost a senatorial racevat the age of 49; and was elected president of United States at the age of 52. Lincoln was not a failure because he refused to quit. To him defeat was a detour, not a dead end.