When You Feel Like Quitting

To quit simply means to stop or discontinue a process. By nature, humans are first and foremost emotional beings.

Biology explains to us that there are over seven trillion nerves in the human body. All these nerves are part of what is called our Nervous System.

You can think of nerves as your body’s electrical wiring, they transmit signals between your brain, spinal cord, and the rest of your body.

These nerves make us sensual beings, different from plants who can’t really see things or feel the way we do. But apart from nerves, the human body also contains and releases hormones.

These hormones are chemicals that make us feel positive and negative sensations, but the thing is they are released due to external and internal factor called stimuli.

I don’t know if it’s just me, but I haven’t come across a plant feeling sad because one of it leaves just dropped. Or how do I imagine a plant crying or angry because someone plucked its fruit?

Well, maybe I’m wrong, then I stand to be corrected. But to the best of my knowledge for now, I believe plants are not sensual beings as humans are.

Our emotions have their place and are of tremendous advantage. They help us experience pleasure, identify pain, and understand every other feeling that falls in between.

So you thought of picking up a venture, the idea of starting a business comes into your mind, picking a line of career, initiating a particular friendship, birthing a community.

And because of how noble these things are perceived in your mind, the idea of you having it causes the feel-good hormones to be released.

You gladly start what you’ve longed for. Your heart is filled with joy. But because life as it seems isn’t a bed of roses, challenges begin to come on the way of your journey, interrupting your good feeling, causing the opposite kinds of hormones to flow. 

And when it gets to a point, the next thing on your mind is the four lettered word QUIT.

Here is the difference between humans and lower animals, free-will. Please correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think animals commit suicide.

They have emotions definitely, but they do not possess free will as strong as humans. In actual fact, most people would prefer to say they do not have free will, just a participatory will.

When the feeling to quit comes, this is where you should permit your other strength to come in. Free will. One major question to ask yourself before you quit as your feeling suggests is “Why did I start in the first place?”

Sometimes, it may be right to quit but it depends on the answer to that question. “Why did I start this business?” “Why did I buy that material?” “Why did I engage this process?”

Make the question customised to your situation. A lot of people start things that actually isn’t right for them.

You took up a venture merely because you saw a friend do the same. You picked a course because that is what your siblings liked. You got that material because it looked nice on your colleague.

If this is you and now you’re feeling to quit, I’ll say yes, quit. Please quit fast!

Every man is unique, what is good for the goose may not always be good for the gander, one man’s meat is another man’s poison.

Nothing is as tiring as picking up a venture that wasn’t meant for you. Nothing is as tiring as running all of your strength on something you’re naturally poor at.

Nothing is a terrible as running a course that wasn’t meant for you. Nothing is as terrible as merely judging your success based on another man's. 

Quit, rediscover yourself and your path, then start afresh.

To deal with the second category of people, you asked yourself why you started, and it truly wasn’t for competition, it wasn’t to prove a point, but just in a bid to further express yourself to your world.

You’re right in your place of strength, you’re doing what you were definitely made for, but there are still obstacles. You don’t quit. Stay strong, the law in operation is the law of times and seasons.

Stay on track and keep sowing, this is the time to maximise your free will and ignore your emotions, the seasons would change in a function of time, and you would harvest massively.

It may not come the way you thought it would, but when it comes you would recognised it. You would say, “Yes, this is the moment I have waited for”. Stay faithful to your course, to your calling and remain on the path of purpose.

I want to hear you win! And that you won BIG.
I love you!
Oluwadurotimi Okediji.