The Quitter’s Manifesto
I love a quitter. Maybe that’s a controversial take — I don’t care. I’m quitting’s biggest advocate. Your life is not a runaway train. If your choices start to feel wrong, you do not have to see them all the way through.
I love a quitter. Maybe that’s a controversial take — I don’t care. I’m quitting’s biggest advocate. Your life is not a runaway train. If your choices start to feel wrong, you do not have to see them all the way through.
Maybe that’s a controversial take — I don’t care. I’m quitting’s biggest advocate. Your life is not a runaway train. If your choices start to feel wrong, you do not have to see them all the way through. You can start over. And you can do that whenever you want to.
To be clear, I’m not advocating for selfishness. I’m not giving you permission to not show up for your friends or your family. I’m not telling you to break up with your partner because you had one argument.
But many of us are in lives we don’t want to be in and don’t HAVE to be in, convinced that our path is set in stone, or that we stepped into the wet concrete as our path was being poured and now we’re just stuck here.
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Some months ago, I got a letter in the mail with a zine inside titled QUIT IT. It was written in August of 2011 (can you believe how long ago that is now??? Actually, don’t think about it). Its author, Geoff, is one of my five male …
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