It’s Time to Quit

Someone once said something like this to me “If you haven’t quit something in your life you ain’t living.” Starting with an extraordinary passion in whatever endeavor you choose and ending with a feeling of mixed emotions or disappointment is always difficult emotionally and physically.

Whether it’s a fitness plan, soccer team, dancing lessons, lifestyle, job, project, social media, hobby, romance or your fantasy football leagues. Whatever it may be there is a feeling of a burden lifted, no more regret or disappointment that you let others down. There is also less responsibility.  Now you can get on living a real-life whatever that could be and your internal mental shackles are broken allowing you to fly like an eagle.

At least that’s the story I tell myself anyways. What I really do is lounge back into my old shitty habits of binge watching Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, TV and Gaming and laying around like some type of elderly dog that’s way past thier prime and just sleeps for 20 hours a day.

What I really meant to do is find a replacement outlet of my time/energy or what I deem as a more positive or constructive way to spend my time.

That On-line romance didn’t end well, there are other fish in the sea or maybe it just wasn’t meant to be. That football/soccer team will find another midfielder, striker or defender or goalie. That dance studio will find another couple that’s getting married, that job and project will find another worker bee, you’ll find another hobby to pump a grand into, and you won’t miss anything really important on social media that you won’t already know about through word of mouth. Lastly that fantasy football league that you thought fulfilled a need and turned into a new type of addiction will simply find another corrupt commish to keep all the hood dad’s in line.

Within a year or maybe less all will be forgotten, your what if’s, your could be’s and your thought that you’ll be missed or provided some type of value to others somehow will be lost in the chapters and memories of time.

Finally, (back to fitness of course), that fitness routine didn’t workout for you - let me tell you, there are many different ways to stay in shape. You don’t like BaizFit or Spin? There are Martial Arts, Pilates, Hiking, Biking, Rowing, Running, Yoga, Paddle Boarding, Meditation, Walking, Online Workout Videos etc to name a few.

It’s ok to quit - to try new things. It’s the way we experience life and find out what we like and don’t like on a daily basis but it’s critical to find a replacement outlet instead of sinking back into your old ways.

I’m not a psychologist nor do I play one on the internet but I can tell you once your “free time” is freed up it allows you to explore the world around you and do the things you’ve been meaning to do for years.

So get out there and find new things out of your comfort zone because we’ve only got one life, time to live it wisely because we ain’t getting younger!