I have been MIA, main reason being that I've been swamped with school in an unreal way. I like to give the things that I care about my all, so in giving school my all, I can't find the time to give my baby blog my 100 (and 10), so I just put it on the back burner till I have time to do a proper post. This got me thinking about deeper things because I am guilty as charged when it comes to over-analysing e v e r ything!
Anyway, I decided that I wanted to write a little something about quitting. Hence the title, since quitting isn't really inspirational and we are never really encouraged to quit. But some experiences that I had earlier this year taught me that sometimes quitting/giving up can be an option, no matter how much you'd like to think that you are the furthest thing from a quitter.
To make a looong story short, I entered a competition for all the wrong reasons and after some time, I knew that I was not enjoying it in the way that I should be. We were always reminded to "have fun!" with everything that came with this experience and I couldn't help but cringe every time I heard those words because I was having anything but fun. This was no one's fault but my own, because I had gotten myself into something that I knew I couldn't handle, but still took on, because I figured that it couldn't be thaaaaat bad.
When I realised that I was turning into the kind of person that no one wanted to be around I knew it was time to do the one thing I pride myself on never doing: quit. It was the kind of decision that took a long time to make, but I knew what the final verdict would be from the time I started weighing the options, the problem was that I had to face the fact that this was the verdict. It didn't help that I would disappoint a lot of people in the process, but I knew that I had to put myself first in this particular situation.
So I have written this post to say that sometimes quitting can be good. Sometimes, as a person, you are in a circumstance/situation/competition that isn't for you, and deep down you know how much happier and complete you would be without it. It is in those situations that quitting isn't so bad and you can just be thankful for the learning experience of the whole thing. Life is too precious and fragile to do things that you really don't have to do for reasons that aren't even good ones to begin with. Do what makes you happy, it really is that simple.
“Quitting is not giving up, it's choosing to focus your attention on something more important. Quitting is not losing confidence, it's realizing that there are more valuable ways you can spend your time. Quitting is not making excuses, it's learning to be more productive, efficient and effective instead. Quitting is letting go of things (or people) that are sucking the life out of you so you can do more things that will bring you strength.”
- Osayi Osar-Empokae, Impossible Is Stupid
