Life is a Thread

In the movie Amazing Grace, Oloudaqh Equiano, an ex-slave, says, "Your life is a thread. It breaks, or it doesn't break." The movie, which we are using as an introduction to Equiano's autobiography, depicts the lives of those who fought to abolish slavery in England. Their lives were much like the threads Equiano mentioned. They were stretched to their maximum limits and were constantly harassed, but refused to break. People like Equiano, William Wilberforce, and Thomas Clarkson were pressured to forget their goals, but they only worked harder to show the world the immorality of slave trade. William Pitt later asks Wilberforce, "Why is it that you only feel the thorns in your feet when you stop running?" He was metaphorically saying that he only realizes the true difficulty of his work when he stops working and gets distracted by the things around him. This tells me that even when my life is stretched beyond what I feel I can bear, if I keep working toward my goal and toward what is right, I can overcome all the pain and obstacles to achieve it.