What Makes you Quit?

At what point is it appropriate to give up? When is quitting welcomed? When the boat begins to sink and the life vessel has floated away? When your legs are burning, your stride is slowing from exhaustion, and their steps begin to threaten your shadow?

What if death has not only knocked at your door, but has taken your family, your friends— you are cornered. To answer these questions honorably, questions must be asked: What moments determined your perspective morality and how did you respond? Dramatic? I know.

To put it plainly: we quit when fatigue suffocates our principles.

Consider this. We say we are willing to die for those we love— but do we say this to satisfy the actions we wish we had the courage to please? Where does the line end? Who in the branches of your family are you not willing to die for? Answer this question honestly. The line must end at some point, right?

Is it because you do not truly love them? Did they wrong you? Is your lack of closeness unwilling to justify their life above your own? Your decision to toss them aside doesn’t suggest a psychopathic disposition that was newly discovered from the depths of your mind; it simply suggests complex problems often require reluctant acceptance— which drafts our morals to conclude a rational, but introspective, end.

The value in examining what has the potential to break down our morals— our true morals and not the loose expectations we feel we must front— can push us to thicken the walls commanding these principals, eventually allowing us to target the fatigue that may force us to quit during adverse circumstance.

Many of us quit before starting. Highlighting what was previously mentioned: quitting is dependent on how we value a potential source of defeat. If we are blinded from triumphs worth due the obstacles insignificance relative to our morals, then we will fail before our boat sets for open water and will halt our stride before we broke a sweat.