Running on four hours of sleep each night, going nonstop every day from 6:30 am-10 pm. The grind starts when you’re young, and ends whenever you decide for it to. They say the work is worth it, but is it really? Is putting every ounce of time and effort every single day, until you cannot feel the amount of pain you’re in anymore, worth it? You get on the train at a young age because you think it will be fun, you think putting your body through immense amounts of pain will be fun, but you don’t know what you signed up for yet. All you have to do is hop on the train and enjoy the ride because people told you it would be fun.

Once you realize that you aren’t having fun anymore, it’s too late to get off the train. It is too late to tell the person controlling the train that you’re tired and this is your stop. You can beg and pray that they let you off, but who is really listening? Nobody will care about the pain you are in or how tired you are because you got on the train in the first place. Soon, you will understand this and you will sit back down on the train with a smile on your face. You will sit back down and accept any food or beverages they have to offer because you signed up for it and you will enjoy the ride eventually. “Fake it till you make it”, that’s the best phrase I’ve ever heard.

One day, you will get used to the grind. You will get used to the train passing your stop and you will accept it. You will accept the fact that you signed up for it and you will end up forcing yourself to enjoy it. You will get so used to forcing yourself to have fun, that one day it will become natural. You won’t have to get up every day, begging for the person controlling the train to let you off. It all becomes natural and it starts to get easier. Soon enough, you will start to enjoy your spot on the train and you won’t want to get up because you are used to the grind and it all comes naturally to you now.

Eventually, you won’t even think about the pain you are in or about how tired you are because you are used to getting up every day and feeling like that. You are used to your body wanting to give out and all you want to do is sleep. The pain and tiredness will become easier to handle because it is what you are used to. Once you get used to the feeling, then you won’t want to leave your spot on the train. You won’t want to get off and do something else because this feeling is all you know. So, you sit in your spot on the train, and you enjoy the rest of the ride with a smile on your face.