What carries me...

In life we all encounter situations where we need to carry our selves through. Most of us can skate by the day to day without ever thinking. Every once in a great while you encounter a situation where you need to rely on your body or your mind to carry you. An 90 hour work week or 50 hours of grilling tests to get our senior year of college out of the way. You either depend on a body carved out of stone by genetics or a mind hardened like a diamond by an even sharper motivator, will power.
 There was a very long time in my life where all I relied on was my body. I had not idea what else to rely on and if I was not forced to I did not rely on my mind. The at around the age of 13 I spent 36 hours with food poisoning in a Forrest preserve and no food or water. I was so sick I could have died, by the time I got home I was dehydrated and just an all out mess. I had to use all my will power to get through this little survival training because my body was rendered useless. I had to push my self to and extent that up until that age I did not know what was possible. I did not know at that time but that would mark the beginning of a long road to mental hardening that would end in BUD/S basic underwater demolition/seal training in Coronado California at the age of 19.
I developed a sense of confidence in my self through those years that would turn me into someone who knew I could do anything if I only preservered. When the day comes that I learn why I have been made into what I am I pray that I am ready for that finale task.