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Sometimes everything's a struggle.  Working. Parenting. Studying. All of it.  The temptation at these times is to look for some inspirational celebrity or historical figure, someone who's achieved greatness despite incredible hardships and measure yourself up against them.
To be inspirational means to make you feel full of hope or encouraged.  And these people are all around us.  It could be your favourite author who uses words like a paintbrush, painting emotions and feelings so real you can reach out and touch them and feel strengthened by their proximity.  Or it could be a friend, who's going through the most awful time, struggling with the worst kinds of crippling anxiety and consuming depression, but still manages to get up every day and just carry on. It could be a lecturer who invokes such inspiration its hard not to be swept along and strive to be as passionate, empathetic and hardworking.  It could be the friends who, no matter your starting mood, will always make you 'ugly face' snort laugh, sometimes in person, sometimes in a message you want to screenshot to make you smile at a later time when things aren't feeling so bright.  It could be your child, who despite feeling nervous, gets up on stage at a school show and sings and dances and gives it their all (like the older you would only do in private) .  It could be the mentor who, sensing your nerves, takes you under their wing and treats you with the compassion and respect which enables your confidence to slowly grow, and makes you strive to be the kind of nurse they are.  It could be the patient, going through the worst time in their lives, still able to reach out and ask for help.
Your inspiration can be anyone.  Just stop, take a breath and look around you at all the people, going through the worst kinds of times and still being fabulous.  Being fabulous precisely because they are them.  And most of them dont even know they're making my day better, easier even.  But all of these people encourage me and make me feel hope.  You've all helped me through and you're all inspirational. 

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