Never Give Up

   The advice “never give up” never really meant anything to me. If I wanted to give up, then I would. Simple as that. Be it school work, a hobby, whatever, my choices are my own. Unfortunately I have learned the hard way that that does not apply to everything in life, especially because I find myself giving that same advice to people.

Bad times for this advice:

-       - a relationship

-      - a hobby

-      - letting go

Good times for this relationship:

-      - life

   Now, I know that “life” is a pretty broad spectrum of subjects, but the advice can be applied in a general sense, as well as in its very basic definition. Never give up on your life. Never give up the right to breath or the right to have a heart beat. Unfortunately, the advice of never giving up does in fact have strings attached to it. When it comes to the game of life, you really can’t give up solely because of all the other people around you. Is that fair? No. But are you the only one who is stricken by this unfair concept? Absolutely not.

   I still really don’t like being told to never give up, because sometimes I really just want to. Sometimes I want to give up trying to train my rabbit to come when I whistle, sometimes I want to give up on my hobbies and sometimes I want to give up on a relationship and that’s okay. What isn’t okay is wasting everything that I really shouldn’t give up on by performing the ultimate sacrifice of giving up on life. Sometimes I feel like a zombie, I take a break from life and eat pudding while watching Netflix. I can imagine that I’m not the only one who has these days and I am most definitely not the last, but that doesn’t mean that I have completely given up.

   I think the new advice we should be giving is “don’t be afraid to take a break”. If people weren’t so afraid of taking a minute to sit down and watch a hilarious episode of The Big Bang Theory or read a wonderfully written novel, then maybe we wouldn’t feel the need to give up so easily on the things that surround us. Distance makes the heart grow fonder, and that definitely applies to everyday life.