Saturday, December 4, 2010
.:. Willpower .:.
I will myself to do it...
The name would suggest,willpower, comes from one's will to accomplish something. It could be said that the desire for the end-result, be it a material product or an emotional achievement such as pride, would be the motivating force in getting it. Such as completing a 40klick march, under dire circumstances such as having a fever. But if you think it about it, where does the extra energy to push on come from, it might not even be "extra" in the first place.
Willpower comes into play when you're on the verge of giving up, when you feel that you have taken enough of watever is dished out to you and you just want to stop. You feel the world coming down on you, you're losing the normal sense of comfort you seek, and are outside your comfort zone. The cells in your body has expanded all the energy that they have, your pain treshhold has reached the peak and is increasing exponentially and your head's gonna explode. You don't know why your doing this, in the first place you might not the cause of you being in it.
With those thoughts, you get 2 groups of people. Those that give up, who throw in the towel and admit that they have reached their limit. Or those who press on, grinding on with their Willpower to succeed what their body and mind deem unachievable there and then. But here comes the question, if you have the strength to carry on, that just means your not at your limit yet. Otherwise, where else would the energy come from? From a biological point of view, energy dosen't appear out of no where in your cells, there's mitochondria. So technically speaking, Willpower dosen't "provide" us with the energy to go on, it makes us go on without us knowing whether our cells still have energy in them, until we collapse on the ground that is. So then is the only way to know your limit when you've reached it?
That I may never know, but what I know is, my Willpower was what got me through the 40klick march. The determination to not break my record of "No fallouts and No status" throughout my 8 months of NS so far :). Thou sometimes I do wonder...why do I push myself too hard?
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