Tenacity

The quality or state of being stubbornly unyielding: bullheadedness, doggedness, hardheadedness, perverseness, or firm determination...

Seems like a negative trait from some of the above dictionary

descriptions....

But I see tenaciousness in family members that is

certainly channeled in a positive way...

For example, the trait of 'not giving up', or

the 'don't quit' attitude has it's roots in being....tenacious!

I have a cousin who has no arms...

Yvonne can do anything that I can do...and do it better!

As children she was one of the first to suggest adventures

for only the brave...often I carried them out and got caught

in the process but she was the 'tenacious instigator' of

my youth... it took me years to figure out that

there was a 'good guy/bad guy' role here and

everyone thought Yvonne was a 'sweet angel'....

NOT....

Years later as she and I were in the process of getting contact lens,

the young Dr. was trying to be very diplomatic when

he asked her

if she could put them in her eyes herself...

Her reply, "Sonny, I'll put it like this,

I have not seen nothing yet

that I can't do!"

That is the positive definition of

Tenacity....