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RE: The Deadpost Initiative - Week 9 - Share your most undervalued work + week 8 winners ($10 SBD prize pool)
Let me enter this great initiative once again. This time with a post that was deeply personal and - I feel - teaches an important lesson:
It's all just stepping stones.
Learning to quit may be a more valuable lesson than learning to stick with something cause it allows you to find something you actually want to do with all your heart. So many people stick with things out of "principle" and remain stuck and miserable. You can do better!
Some great perspective on this. I'm also with the camp of following one's gut feeling; only one by himself can know what is best for him/her. Other people can give advice and their perspective but ultimately it's not in their hands.
Perhaps it is because I have in recent months both experienced a process of reconnect with my parents as well as a painful process of failure, but I felt that your experience shared not only struck a chord but also feels genuinely relevant.
Sometimes it is better to quit - particularly in a very early stage where one's investment is little. This is not always possible and so it is tempting to seek to justify one's efforts - to make something positive of what may otherwise be a negative situation.
And sometimes even then one is best cutting one's losses and moving on to the next thing.
Thanks for sharing. This has my vote. :c)