I've been playing a lot of Overwatch lately. Not "a lot" like kids and students can play, but "a lot" on the scale of a man with a job, hobbies and a family. Today I finally got the feeling that I've played enough for a while, as in almost every single game I've played today I had a thrower or a leaver. I've had some cases like this already before, but this really tired me down.
At this point, I found myself wondering what I should actually do? As lately I haven't been doing any photography due to a disappointing photo session and I lost interest for photography for a moment. I haven't been on Steemit that much as I've been disappointed in myself on posting.
How easy it is to quit when you're disappointed?
You start a new diet - you have high hopes to lose at least 10 kilograms of weight, but instead after a week you haven't lost anything. After two weeks, you've lost 300 grams of weight. You get disappointed and stop the diet - why to continue if it's such a disappointment?
Especially as the diet has made you leave out stuff you enjoy eating.
Your cool friends are going to the gym and you're hoping that you'd have as big arms and legs as they have. Awesome. You get a gym membership and start going to the gym. You might even get a personal trailer to build up a exercise program for you and you go to the gym regularly for two months. Then you compare the results so far to an old photo and well... you're not that much muscular. You can't really see that much of a difference. There are slight changes but...
Do you love going to the gym enough so you'll keep on pushing yourself, even though you're not seeing the results you hope for?
You have bunch of cryptowizard friends who have bought some of the coolest altcoin in the town. You can see the prices are skyrocketing, so you hop aboard and spend 500€ to buy some of the cool crypto. However shortly after your purchase, the price drops. You have seen the price curves of other cryptocurrencies and some drop really rapidly after a fast rise. You decide to make a quick move and sell all you have.
However then the price keeps on climbing up again. You use the money from the panic sale to buy back some of the crypto, hoping to still make some gains. However the prices drop again and you get frustrated. You sell all of the crypto you had and keep the money. You just lost 340€ and it sucks. You're saving what you can instead of waiting to see if it turns OK in the end. Your friends have still made some gains on the long run, but you're disappointed.
An user joins Steemit, hoping to make big gains. She writes an introduction post, posts a few articles, leaves a few comments to other users, joins some Discord servers and the steem.chat just.. to finally notice after a month, that she's still making $0.02 per post. At the same time she sees other posts making loads of money and she's asking herself, why is she doing this? She hasn't even found anything interesting to follow and read, only a few accounts which are popular and a few which are actively upvoting her.
What a disappointment, as there is no joy for her on Steemit.
But what if you don't quit?
I'm not saying world will be better if you don't quit. Not at all. The typical motivational thing is with all the "If you try hard enough, you will succeed!"
Nobody can actually promise you that. You might want and try something really hard and never succeed.
There will always be a lot of people who will never reach their goals. They will never be rich, famous, popular and the best.
But as they say, if you quit you will never know. You will never know if you could have succeeded.
If you truly want it, never quit. Not at least until you've tried with the best you have.
It's a real shame it's so hard to be at your best. I would want to write at my best, do my best, take the best photos possible but it's just so difficult. And the difficulty is usually something nobody else sees, but most still know from their own life.
