When you stop and think about it, life is an endless journey filled with ups and downs, beauty and dark, success and failure. In the end everything has a purpose and a place. The next time you think your journey of fitness is one of negativity and pure challenges with no results, stop and remind yourself that is simply part of the journey. A moment in time presented to in order to force growth and change because frankly, sometimes it needs to be forced. Back down not from challenges, for this time, while being dressed up and disguised as something bad, is one that is truly an ally lying underneath. The only problem is our blindness to the beauty that lies beneath the surface.