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If You’re Ready to “Give up,” You’re Headed in The Right Direction

It may not seem like it, but the path has presented itself.

Chris Freyler
3 min readApr 29, 2024
Photo by Everton Vila on Unsplash

It’s great if you are ready to give up! You’re on the right path. Why you ask? Let me explain.

The desire to give up is a way of telling yourself, you are almost there.

You are disgusted, defeated, and exhausted with life, or maybe just yourself. Whatever the reason you feel like giving up, it’s not the answer, don’t listen to the distorted reasoning.

You AREN’T your thoughts, you are your actions

I wanted to stop at a drive-thru today, and stress eat. I wanted to drink yesterday too. I didn’t want to work last night. So many things I know I shouldn’t do, I want to do.

Because why?

Giving up is easier. It’s easy to do all the self deprecating, self destructive things I was conditioned to do in life. There would have been no better feeling than eating, and drinking myself into a coma, at least initially.

Initially it has almost a euphoric feeling to it, until the consequences of the “giving up” follows closely behind. My life has been riddled with a bunch of “fuck its.” And I advise anyone who is reading this to carefully make…

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Chris Freyler
Chris Freyler

Written by Chris Freyler

Mistake Maker Extraordinaire .Writing from a place I don’t understand at times. I write to help myself, in return hope it helps you. Just another Quora guy.

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