How to know when to quit something?
When is quitting justified?
We live in a culture that abhors quitting. Raised on Rocky movies we are convinced that failure is not an option. That committing and pushing through are the only ways to succeed.
In a sense they are correct, but in another wrong.
Eckhart Tolles book ‘’A New Earth’’ discusses this issue. He writes about a man who sacrifices his life to build a profitable business, but spends years creating negative energy and toxicity that consumes his life, at the cost of material wealth.
Was his pain worth it?
‘’It’s easier for a camel to get through an eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven’’.
If you pursue something that causes suffering and causes lasting physical, mental, emotional and spiritual damage for money — arguably it’s the wrong path. Filled with low vibration energy of anger, desire and grief.
How many of us waste our precious time on this earth doing things we don’t want to be doing? It’s the most common form of insanity.
We only have one chance in this avatar, yet we squander so many seconds in the pursuit of things we know wont make us happy. Fulfilling obligations to whom? The perception of others?
The shame of quitting prevents people from taking the plunge into the unknown. Better to keep at what you know than risk greener pastures elsewhere. A bird in hand is better than two in the bush.
Comfortably doing what you’ve always done. Too embarrassed to do any different. Living life to appease others. Scared of what you might become, so you resort to playing beneath your potential to avoid criticism.
Human beings are such a phenomenal species, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at your average Joe. Typically under performing in every area of their life and doing the bare minimum to get by. If that’s the life they want to live, good for them, nothing but respect for doing what they want. But if they hunger for more and refuse to change, there is no greater shame.
It’s time for people to stop leading lives of quiet desperation.
The lion sleeps no more.
