“Finally” Persisting through pain is a strenuous task requiring grit, which mandates perseverance, passion and determination. To begin with, a few months ago the accelerator pedal on my father’s 2001 Chevrolet Blazer broke while we were roughly two miles away from our home. Regrettably, my father had forgotten his phone, and mine was obsolete due to his negligence to pay the cell phone bill. Thus, we were forced to make the two-mile expedition from the west side of town to our home on the east side. It was the middle of summer, and the oppressive heat of the sun was beating down on me. To add to this, I was experiencing severe abdominal pain, making the journey more daunting than it already was. For example, walking in the heat while in a
