Stubbornness

I credit myself in my ability to never give up and in many cases that works to my advantage (i.e. swimming, goals, homework problems here and there). Yet in those cases people tend to say that you're determined, persevering, tenacious. The word stubborn doesn't come out until you come into conflict with ones around you. And so why is that?


Aren't the aforementioned adjectives, good qualities to have to keep pressing on in whatever situations? But at the same time they mean exactly the same thing stubborn means just in a positive light. So many words for the essentially the same meaning. 


Now I guess the reason why I bring this up is because there are so many times that I'm so determined to just never give up. On goals and people mainly. Why I don't know. But I was reminded again tonight that a lot of people dismiss their positive thoughts on the ones around them and that a new leaf can't be given so freely due to prior mishaps.

I know that I can be stubborn. 

I know that can lead me into trouble. 

I know that the trouble I may encounter can hurt me.  

But you know what I can live with that. 

In the end if someone has been helped/impacted then my life has been worthwhile. 
To live is Christ to die is gain.