When he said ‘do or not do, there is no try’. Sometimes all we have is doing our best and often we do fail. I would say, ‘keep trying and don’t give up’.

I made a possibly bad decision at New Year’s when I declared that 2025 would be the year when I would be  able to walk again. The week following that glib statement was full of weakness and near falls. But then I thought, don’t let failure pull you down. Hope, never despair. The first half of every day I can easily believe that everything is possible, but as the day passes, the weakness wins and impossibility raises its ugly head.

Do you ever feel like that? Well done for every hill you climb, every fear you face, every time you try your best.

Watching the news about the untamable fires in LA, I wonder how the fire fighters keep going, when so much is lost. And yet, they still keep trying, the heroes that they are. If only we could have an ounce of their staying power. All they have is ‘try’. Don’t take that away. There is so much that is heroic about trying. Don’t you forget that.