\u201cGrit\u201d is one of those words people love to throw around when they talk about Texas, like it\u2019s something we sprinkle on breakfast tacos next to the Cholula. But in Lubbock, grit isn\u2019t an idea; it\u2019s a survival mechanism. It\u2019s what gets us up, puts pants on our bodies, and sends us straight into weather that feels like it was programmed by a glitchy computer.<\/p>\n
Photo by Jon Tyson<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n And you don\u2019t need to be a cowboy or someone who says \u201cI\u2019m fixin\u2019 to\u201d without irony. If you live in West Texas long enough, grit just gets baked into your DNA \u2014 right next to the gene that makes you panic-buy bottled water and call every thunderstorm a \u201cdoozy.\u201d<\/p>\n Read More:\u00a0Why Lubbock Residents Hold Onto Their Unusual Keepsakes<\/a><\/p>\n Lubbock grit is waking up to freezing fog, high winds, and dust thick enough to exfoliate you, and still heading to work like it\u2019s fine. It\u2019s brushing sand out of your hair in December without blinking. It\u2019s hearing tornado sirens and thinking, Let me grab my laundry real quick.<\/p>\n Photo by Dave Lowe<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n It\u2019s also how we handle the hard stuff. Texans \u2014 especially West Texans \u2014 have a strange talent for carrying on. When life hits us with something heavy, we mutter \u201cit\u2019ll be alright,\u201d even when we\u2019re not sure. And somehow\u2026 it usually is.<\/p>\n Photo by Fabian Kleiser<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n Grit here isn\u2019t about being tough \u2014 it\u2019s about being tough enough. It\u2019s the single mom still showing up, the dad coaching Little League in 50 mph winds, the teenager wearing shorts in 30 degrees because \u201cit\u2019s not that cold.\u201d<\/p>\n Texas grit is quiet, ordinary, and unimpressed by struggle. It grows in inconvenience, chaos, and dust storms \u2014 right here in the dirt.<\/p>\n The Lubbock Starter Pack: Everything You Need To Survive <\/p>\n Because Lubbock is either a love story…or an elaborate exit plan.<\/p>\n Gallery Credit: Chrissy<\/p>\n The Five Stages of Living in Lubbock: From Denial to Acceptance<\/p>\n If you think you’ve never been through this, you’re lying to yourself.<\/p>\n Gallery Credit: Chrissy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cGrit\u201d is one of those words people love to throw around when they talk about Texas, like it\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-76309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}