In Season 3 of Cobra Kai, Johnny visits Miguel in the hospital after he has suffered a major injury. Miguel is in bed, and he can’t walk. He tries to grab his phone which is out of reach. Johnny asks him if he wants it, Miguel says yes, and he pushes his phone away and tells Miguel to get up and get it.
Johnny makes the point that the world isn’t just going to hand Miguel what he wants, even if he can’t walk. He says, “You want something, you’ll have to crawl across the floor, use your damn teeth if you have to.”
While Miguel is unable to get his phone across the floor when he tries, what Johnny said to him is right. Life isn’t going to hand you anything. And if you want something bad enough, you’ve got to work for it. There is no easy path and nothing worth having comes easy.
When we go through our darkest times, it is easy for us to lose sight of all the times we have gotten back up when life kicked us down.
There is a clip called “Good” from Jocko Willink’s podcast that I love. He basically says that if you are still here and still breathing, you still have some fight left in you.
