6.16.25 // Quitting

What if I quit?
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Does quitting inherently make me a quitter?
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Where is the line between knowing something isn’t right and holding on too tight?
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Where is the line between pushing through discomfort… and holding on just to prove a point to someone else?
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Where is the line between showing yourself you can do it just to say you did, and doing something because it genuinely feels like success, even if you cross the finish line crawling?
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Everyone’s threshold for discomfort varies. But where is the push that leads to growth, and where does it become a push for approval, or for the sake of invisible promises you made to prove your worth?
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Overwhelmed by the push and pull of intuition, fear, yearning, dreams, and reality.
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How do you trust yourself enough to know you left nothing on the table? That you truly tried your best with the tools you had?
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Is it shame that keeps us in longer than we should stay? Fear of failing? Fear of knowing we could have tried a little harder? Or is it shame in being seen trying—and still missing — so it feels easier not to try at all?
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But who’s really watching our lives that closely?
No one is tracking your story as closely as you are.
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Here’s what I’m learning...
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You are not your mistakes.
You are the growth that comes from them—
from trying, from stretching, from listening.
Even if that growth looks like quitting.
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But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t leap.
Because sometimes, you do… and the leap lands you somewhere you didn’t know you were meant to go.
And even when you feel like quitting, you might surprise yourself— and stay.
Not to prove anything.
Not to chase a finish line.
But because it feels right.
Even when it’s hard.
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So, where is the line?
Maybe it’s not fixed.
Maybe the balance lives in listening to your own enough-ness, to your own want instead of your should.
Maybe the line is where forcing ends, and freedom begins.
Maybe that’s where the friction falls away — and what’s right for you finally has room to stay.