What makes you give up?

I almost never ever never give up. It goes against my grain. But when my dear friend and lover Susie had her manic episode (brought on by her rat bastard children) and her neural transmitter levels changed for good forevermore and she suddenly became a different (very scary) person, well, I finally gave up there.
Adios Susie.

I give up very easily, I have never been the person who tries too hard to get something. If I get something the easy way, its fine, if I don’t, still better, I can never chase a thing/person no matter how important it is.

wow @Dan_Lyons you sure you weren’t part of the trigger for her episodes? “rat bastard children” ? Nice.

I give up when continuing to try is doing more harm than good to me in some way.

When it comes to relationships, I seem to be almost always the one who hangs on past the point of it being in my best interest.

I did quit working in my family’s business after many painful instances between my spouse and I. I woke in the middle of the night and said – that’s enough, I’ve got to leave.

When there is sufficient evidence that a positive outcome is not possible and that can be with anything I get myself involved in.

I am not a hot pursuer, but I am patient and tenacious.

I take it easier on myself nowadays than when I was younger. Lots of things I used to be able to do so easily—like figuring our a new software program or getting the lawn mower stared, or even writing an email or letter—if I can’t do whatever it is after a couple of tries, I just walk away and try later. Life’s too short (and getting shorter all the time) to make myself stressed over what I can’t do.

If I lose hope. Which leads me to wonder what the fuck is hope?

When get excessively overwhelmed in the present. I’m done with the days where I was willing to torture myself in the present for some perceived potential future payoff. I’m much mentally healthier now.

I’m close to giving up now, but I soldier on.
I went belly up this past few years during the economic shit storm whose trickle down effect finally trickled into my life starting in 2010, a few years after the eye of the storm.
I lost work I loved, plowed through my savings trying to hang onto my property and finally had to give up the ghost of prosperity past.
Another boomer gone bust.

It sucks beyond words.

I am a very independent and creative type and relationship loss doesn’t bother me much, I am easily able to move on, but, losing my financial independence, my home of 7 years that I adored, and now, not being able to find decent work again in my mid-50’s, and living in a room mate situation for the first time in my adult life sucks beyond measure.
I am hanging in there in the moment but if things don’t get better I may go for plan B.
A nice, steaming pot of Oleander tea. lol

@anniereborn Were you there? What do you know about it? Or are you really Susie?

@Dan_Lyons no I wasn’t, no I am not, but your attitude certainly couldn’t have helped the situation.

^^^ hahahaha… right.

This is getting weird.

It’s not my goal to conquer all, but to learn what I like or not, and pursue it then. None of us really knows what we’ll like or not until we actually try it. We can only determine what we think we’ll like in metaphors, but only in action do we start to put the puzzle together in determining who we are as individuals, and what best suits us or not.

I had worked as a rolling stock and yard truck mechanic at a place several years ago, something that was far different from my normal field as an industrial electrician. I had taken the position because I couldn’t find work after getting laid off before that. Personally I just couldn’t get into it, and I had found the work of changing oil, changing gear oil, changing other fluids, checking wheel bearings, changing tires, greasing fittings, installing seat belts, changing leaf springs, etc to be quite repetitive.

Personally I had never enjoyed working on vehicles, though it was a dream come true for other guys around me. I ended up leaving that job for another. I had much more personal satisfaction working as an industrial electrician because not only was the work much less repetitive, but it was simply something I was more into, and I knew this from doing it. I had only given a job example here, but I can stretch this case to other issues in life as well.

I think the above is important, because there’s a difference between giving up vs realizing something isn’t for us. This is one of those questions I can’t use human words to answer, because even difficulty level does not mean I lose interest and give up. Sometimes I get bored with something too after being motivated to try it. I have no Mendoza Line here, only something I simply ‘feel’ I guess.