Still a Hero

After sharks, barracudas, and Portugeuse Man O'Wars, Diana Nyad was forced to stop her swim due to health concerns.  Addressing her crew, she said, "But for each of us, isn’t life about determining your own finish line? This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.”


Earlier, she gave her strategy for attempting her dream:  "The mental approach has to be to parcel it out. No one could swim the whole thing while thinking about the whole thing. Till I get a glimpse of the final shore I can’t start obsessing on it—it’s too far away, too nebulous—I don’t know where it is. So I’m going to take it night by day: first get through the nighttime and then get through the daytime, and then the nighttime again, and so on. . . . And I’ll just do that till I get news that the shore is near."


Her shore just wasn't at the Florida coastline . . . but she made attempting dreams, even with the possibility that you don't reach them, seem like the best kind of life.