Who in your life taught you what real perseverance looks like? She grew up watching her mother fight cancer and still show up for her siblings every single day. Some people preach discipline from a stage. Samantha learned it from watching her mother get out of bed every single day, sick, and still show up. A mother sick with cancer. A house that still had to run. Kids who needed breakfast, school, a version of normal. She was just a kid watching it happen. Watching her mother get up anyway. Watching her keep building a life for her and her siblings anyway. She never gave up. A childhood shaped by a sick parent. A mother who didn't have the luxury of staying in bed. A lesson in perseverance no classroom could have taught her. Gratitude isn't always a candle lit journal entry or a sunrise on an easy morning. Sometimes it's watching your sick mother still get up for you, and learning that the good days and the bad days both deserve to be appreciated. She kept going too. Not because watching her mother struggle was easy. Not because it doesn't still stay with her. Just because she learned it always works out in the end, even on the hard days. Whether it's showing up for your kids after a hard diagnosis in Memphis or finding the strength to keep going in Salt Lake City, you can carry that same perseverance anywhere in life. That's the gratitude Samantha was really talking about. Not a childhood without hardship, but a woman who watched her mother get up every day through cancer and decided to carry that same perseverance into everything she does. #gratitude #faith #family #newyork #foryou - @camslifeofgratitude