Should I Keep Going or Give Up? Tell Not Yet From Never

Read Time:11 Minute, 11 Second You have been at this for a while now. Long enough that people have stopped asking how it is going, because they can see your face when they do. Long enough that you keep asking yourself the same thing: should I keep going or give up? The applications that go out and come back as silence. The small amount you put aside each month that still looks like nothing. The person you keep showing up for who has not shown up back. The skill you practise most evenings that still feels clumsy in your hands. You are not about to quit in a dramatic way. It is quieter than that. You do it a little less this week than last. You skip a day and tell yourself it is only a day. And underneath it all sits that one question you cannot settle. You have asked it so many times that it has stopped being a question and become the weather you live in. Why “Should I Keep Going or Give Up?” Never Gets an Answer The usual advice comes in two flavours, and they cancel each other out.

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