Quitting + Faking your own death + Josephine Baker

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Just giving up

Sometimes, things are really hard but you just have to grit your teeth and battle through. These things include giving birth (even with the drugs its pretty alarming) ; finishing the swim across the whole lake when you’re halfway there and realise you’ve grossly over-estimated your lung capacity and cardiovascular fitness; raising an increasingly surly and alarmingly hostile teen and driving long distances to get to nice places. Once you start those things, you’ve just got to bear down and get ‘em done. Pro tip - podcasts and gummy bears can help in most situations.

However, there are a lot of things that you don’t have to do. Often, when something is hard and unpleasant, I highly recommend cutting and running. Life is difficult , sad and actually quite short, don’t spend it doing stuff that makes you unhappy.

I can already see the puritanical rage steaming off many people’s cellphones and I get it, because I struggle with the judgement and sense of obligat…