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Samuel Beckett’s Most Powerful Rule For Life Inspires Me Every Day
A life-changing principle that never fails me.
I’ve never stopped thinking about something playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett said since I came across it.
“I must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on,” he said.
It’s almost like a life rule. If you’ve come this far in life, you are already resilient. You’ve moved beyond the unexpected shocks of life and still survived.
“I can, and will, overcome,” I always tell myself.
Life feels impossible sometimes. You’ve felt it. So have I. Despair hits everyone. It tells you the fight isn’t worth it. But something inside pushes back. That’s the will to live. It’s always there when you need it.
Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor, wrote, “What is to give light must endure burning.” Pain doesn’t stop us. It forces us forward.
Beckett knew this.
His words are the very tension of existence. We must go on because life demands it. But we feel like we can’t. The struggle tears at us. Yet, we still take the next step. It’s a paradox. You don’t see the strength until you act.
People survive unimaginable things.
