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To Quit Or
Not To Quit
Is it making you happy, or are you just too scared to quit?
Tenacity is a very valuable quality, and I am not trying to
encourage its underestimation. Personally, there are many things in
my life I have considered giving up, and am exceedingly glad that I
didn’t. Often, my extra work and patience resulted in success
shortly after I had considered quitting. In these cases, I know my
persistence paid off.
However, I also know that quitting other things has made me a
better, happier and more balanced person. It’s all about
consideration, not blind perseverance nor blind abandonment.
For there is a distinct difference between quitting things that
matter and quitting things that don’t. Unfortunately, having spent
most of lives being bombarded by anti-quitting sentiments like
“quitters never win, and winners never quit” it becomes increasingly
difficult to tell the different between lazy quitting and considered
changes in life direction.
In order to combat this, I suggest the creation of a new word,
one without all the negative connotations “quitter” evokes. A word
that simply means “a person who is wise and brave enough to cease
doing something because they know it isn’t essential, it doesn’t
make them happy and isn’t right for them”.
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