This is one of those inspirational videos — a true story with the moral that if you don't give up, you can't be defeated. I'm always leery of that advice because I think there are times in life when you can't win and it's self-destructive to not give up on one goal and redirect your time and passion to another, more attainable one. I mean, if I decide my goal is to be elected Miss Teenage U.S.A., that's not going to happen and it won't be because I gave up before I got my dream. Dreams are great but they need to be grounded in some reality. I know some folks who I think pissed away their best years and a lot of attainable successes because they obsessed on an unattainable — or at least, unlikely — goal.
But this one is about a runner with an attainable goal: To finish the race he starts. Obviously, since I'm telling you what I just told you, he makes it. How he makes it may cause you to get a tear or two on your monitor…