Spartans - Heroic Resisters

Courage, training, equipment, and discipline created the famous legacy of why 300 Spartans and nearly 3,000 Greeks held the pass for over three days against overwhelming odds during the battle of Thermopylae around 480 B.C. The Persians numbered between 70,000 and 300,000.   

 Eventually the Spartans and Greeks were over-run in the battle.

Courage, training, discipline, and positive attitude will equip YOPD resisters in their difficult battle.  Resisters must be high performing.

“This is Sparta” is a way of showing the world that I am a force to be reckoned with. I will not surrender. I will not compromise. If you want to beat me, you will have to toil for every inch of ground you wish to gain. As far as it depends on me, I will make you toil; I will make you pay. And when you overcome me, I will be remembered as the force that made my invincible enemy shudder.

Lesson 3: When you get discouraged, ponder lesson 1 and lesson 2. These are not learned, they are truths.

Go, passerby, to Sparta tell obedient to her laws, we fell.

Thermopylae Memorial Epitaph

We are Sparta!!

My lesson simply applied from the Spartans:

Go, young and brave, to Parkinson's tell

 we fight for the privilege of being well.

We will Resist! 

I choose to resist struggles, whatever comes my way, and live.  My goal on this journey is to minimize the struggles, be positive, search for golden nuggets, exercise, and help others.  

The operative word, "live" is the measure of success.  However as I mature in this journey "live" is the sum of successes measured in daily increments.  It is cumulative. 

Those who are blessed with Young Onset Parkinson's Disease (YOPD) or who I will call YOPD Resisters have much in common with the Spartans.  This is why the blog is called "Go, Passerby, to Sparta tell." 

Lesson 1: God is Good, all the time!  
Lesson 2: All the time, God is good!