“Never give up”

Why? Why never give up? Even machines need to power off periodically. Even machines break down occasionally, and when they do, they don’t get repaired overnight. We are human. Why shouldn’t we be allowed to give up sometimes?

It’s OK to give up. It’s OK to get exhausted and need some time on the ground to recuperate. It’s OK to take some time to contemplate, if you’ve fallen. You’ll see the “how”s. How you ended up where you are, how to proceed. The “what”s. What you did wrong, what you did right, what you can fix, what you cannot, what you can try to avoid in the future. Why is it bad, giving up some times? What is there to be gained it you never do? What do you learn out of springing back up the moment you touch the ground? Will you keep standing by skill or luck, then? And how many times will you manage to spring back up, if you run out of luck? And how will you really be? How steady your tread?

Give up. It’s healthy to be affected. It means you’re a functioning human being. Give up, lie on the floor a bit, get some rest; it’s OK. It’s more than OK, it’s healthy. Just try not to dwell too long there. Try to set an alarm, don’t get too comfortable in the lack of comfort. And gradually use this time. Use this time to contemplate, to find out, to think about, to fix, to drop, to mourn, to change, to discover, to learn, to heal, to improve, to take a look at the immediate path and draw a course for the visible future, one step at a time, to accept, to challenge, to recuperate and, through this process, to emerge, with all this new ammunition in your arsenal.

Allow yourself some rest, and the chance to find out what you want and how to go about. If you’ve ever been an athlete or a musician (possibly true in other fields as well), you’ll have experienced the miracles that a break can do to your performance. And to your mind. You don’t have to bounce back right away. Never mind the easily spoken, hardly thought through, motivational clichés. Use your time out to rest and benefit from, use it to consolidate experience and self-improve. And re-emerge.

*Hug*, if you want it

(“English diversion”s don’t happen on purpose. It’s just that the opening sentence in my mind happened to be in English and the rest followed :> )


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