Giving up vs. Moving on

My writing is bionic, most of the times and especially at the beginning it doesn’t work but it grows and gets a life not of its own but a life that is hard to sustain. It needs a consistent input of water current to move turbines that in turn create the ability to microwave your food, to see at night, to power economies; my writing needs me to put in a lot in order to get a small change in someone’s life and when there is a lot of those then maybe, maybe just maybe I will consider myself a good writer.

I digress though, my topic today is about a simple difference in human action; a difference that can cause either a dent in the universe for instance Steve Job’s outstanding life exploits or a resounding thud on the ground from a mistake that you can’t get yourself out of. I write about a simple choice we all have to make in most instances in our lives; but not stupid choices that we shouldn’t make but for the life of us we do.

I was chatting with a friend about their journey and whether they should exit their pursuits out of frustration and tire or whether they should weather the storm and that’s when the idea for this piece came up. In answer I told my pal to stop and think on whether they were moving on or giving up and the effect of each on the value of their experience.

Maybe we try too hard in the things we do and the amount of opposing force is more than the amount of efforts we put in; or just maybe we are looking for a reason to just get ourselves out of something we can’t remember why we got ourselves into in the first place. More often than not expectations set on our part lead to poor experiences that we may sometimes opt out of due to frustrations.

Let’s for one second forget we have to live by a code of success and the things we get ourselves into with always be on a tangent of growing pains to show success; let’s think of a simple world with simple requirements for survival. Even in this world waking up to the sounds of birds singing and beauty need an effort for appreciation. Life is about the pains of trying because of the fleeting happiness that success affords. 50 Cent (what happened to the quality of this guy’s music, used to be good now he ain’t no more — sigh) raps in one of his older masterpieces “Sunny days wouldn’t be special if it wasn’t for rain, Joy wouldn’t feel so good if it wasn’t for pain, Death gotta be easy cause life is hard”

I will try not to give up but when I do, I will be moving on to something better; truth is, I have had my fair share of fear-driven withdrawals from my dreams but maybe it can’t be worse than the regrets I have when I do. I made up my mind to not give up but to always know when to move on.