why everyone needs to quit

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Don't let anyone tell you that quitting is a bad thing. If you gave it your all and you realized it's not for you, how is that a bad thing? If someone were to ask me, do you remember the day that your childhood dream was crushed? I would tell them yes, in a heartbeat. I know the day. I was playing soccer. I had gone on this incredible journey of wanting to be a better soccer player.

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I had made improvements in my first year of high school. I played really, really well. And I wanted to play professionally. That was my dream. As I got older, I knew, okay, maybe I didn't have what it took to be the next Bellingham. But I knew that I could be good. Maybe I could play in college. I'm at this college showcase with a team that I was trying out for.

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And I'm playing and everything was just going wrong. I had terrible stage fright. I couldn't find my footing. And every mistake I made was just bad. It just got worse and worse and worse. The coach got so frustrated that he pulled me off the field. He's like, what are you doing? And I'm like, I don't know. I'm just, it's not my day, I guess.

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And I remember the look in his eyes when he told me this. It was very... It was very cold and it was very sincere. And I feel like he told me this because he saw a part of him in me. And he said, you really got to decide if you're going to play. And I'm like, what? If I'm going to play what? Like CDM or CM? Like what position? When? Like how I'm going to play? And he says, no.

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You really got to decide if you want to play this sport. had spent at that point i would say like a good eight seven years of my life trying to improve trying to get better and as i think a lot of us know in youth sports it's it's it's hard it's really hard you have this dream you want to be a professional whatever football player basketball player you want to be a professional golfer

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It looks so beautiful, but the truth of the matter is that moment made me really realize a lot of things and it made me reflect. And what it really made me realize was this. It's time to stop. The journey for me becoming a professional football player was over. How? Bro, you're not supposed to quit. You're not supposed to quit when you really, really love something.

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When you feel like that is your thing, you are going to make it by any means and you know you're good at it. But to me, this, it was just a dream. Let's be real. It was just a dream. I didn't have what it took. And that conversation with that coach, I hated that. I hated it. I didn't like the fact that he told me the truth.

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Because when I really thought about it, anyone who would have been in the position of I am going pro no matter what, they would have heard that and be like, let me prove you wrong. Let me prove you wrong. But I didn't. I had more fun And I had more energy towards learning how to edit videos, towards learning how to be a craftsman, towards learning how to be a filmmaker.

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I just had more energy towards that. And I knew that my soccer dreams, it was time to stop. It was just time to stop Trying to lie to myself that it was going to happen and that I wanted it. Because I didn't. I didn't want it. When you're playing with people who wake up in the morning and the first thought is to kick a ball, it's kind of hard to compete.

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