Perseverance

This post is another dedication to Patti, my favorite cousin.

I won't go on this time, however, about how awesome she is, because we already know that! But this time, I want to talk about her character. She's been struggling with a knee injury ALL winter. It has squashed many of her plans for the summer. HOWEVER, she moves on despite of this. She's always planning around and figuring out how to keep moving forward even though she's in pain.

In addition to all the physical qualities that athletes have like strength, endurance, agility, above all else, I believe perseverance is number one. This makes Patti a strong athlete.

Dictionary.com has the following definition of perseverance:

1. Steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., esp. in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.

—Synonyms 1. doggedness, steadfastness. Perseverance, persistence, tenacity, pertinacity imply resolute and unyielding holding on in following a course of action. Perseverance commonly suggests activity maintained in spite of difficulties or steadfast and long-continued application: Endurance and perseverance combined to win in the end. It is regularly used in a favorable sense. persistence in a belief; Tenacity, with the original meaning of adhesiveness, as of glue, is a dogged and determined holding on. Whether used literally or figuratively it has favorable implications: a bulldog quality of tenacity; the tenacity of one's memory. Pertinacity, unlike its related word, is used chiefly in an unfavorable sense, that of over insistent tenacity: the pertinacity of the social climber.

All of these things and more describe her tenacious nature, which I am learning through osmosis.