Knowing when to quit

Knowing when to quit

Be it a job, common interest group, marriage or learning something, there could be times when it becomes ideal to call it quits.

Being part of any venture, entailing more than one participant, there is always the possibility of the need to pull yourself out of it. This may be due to a plethora of reasons. Sometime these reasons may make sense only to yourself. So it may be a great idea to understand the mechanics of ‘I want to quit” mentality. This may help reassess your decisions.

One of the prime reasons that drive you to choose quitting is the thought that you are well and truly not required. Getting an idea that your thoughts and ideas not being considered or not rousing expected responses could be the starting point of such a choice. True, if your inputs are unimportant to the others, it may be better to quit, however it may be a good idea to recheck whether it has actually been conveyed adequately and understood the way you meant it.

Being bored is another reason to quit. When your job stops to interest you and you find yourself yawning too much at work, it may be the time to start a job search. This could be the case with a cause that ceases to arouse passion in you. Even learning something new can have a ‘quit me’ time, either when it doesn’t seem important to you anymore, or starts being difficult for you to cope up with. Even family life can have a quit it time due to the partners losing their passion for one another and the family they have built up start being a bothersome load to both. However there can never be a “right time to quit”, especially if there are children involved.

One of the greatest quit it reasons is when difference of opinion reach a level that make it irreconcilable. Differences exist in everything. No two people think alike, leave alone all the members of a group. The group continue to stay together when, these differences are discussed and solutions sought. There are possibilities of one choice being accepted over the other. However when the differences goes beyond a point of becoming beyond reconcilability, it may be the best of times to call it quits.

Another time to quit is when your group works with goals that counter one another. A group, or family that seeks to drive in opposite directions and towards opposing goals, have no right to exist. Such groups or families are the roots of various social evils and can be serious disruption in the society. The next door neighbor and his wife that yells at one another all the time are definitely not my choice of neighbors.

Quitting is often seen as a choice of the loser. You quit when you are too lazy to try anymore, goes the saying. Yet there is a time to quit, and when it is , you better quit.