The Art of Quitting
I realised everyone has made ' quitting ' almost a taboo, and everyone is talking about how 'we should keep going', 'hard work pays off' and all the hogwash. But no one teaches you how to quit. They teach you how to persist. How to grind. How to endure. How to “stick out.” Quitting is framed as weakness, failure, and lack of resilience . No one talks about the art of quitting . For a long time, I didn’t know how to do it. I stayed in friendships that felt heavy because I thought loyalty meant staying no matter what. I stayed in conversations that drained me because I didn’t want to seem difficult. I stayed in spaces where I felt slightly out of place, I continued doing things where I was reaching nowhere, I stayed in sports where I couldn't figure anything out, because I thought discomfort meant growth. Sometimes it does. Sometimes it just means you don’t belong there anymore. Last year, when my mental health wasn’t at its best, I started noticing a ...