Where’s The Line?

There’s an old saying that goes “Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go”. I have always wonder when does the term ‘sometimes’ can be count. Since we usually give up on something after meeting with failures, how would we know that what we are doing isn’t running away from facing our failures and using these words to justify our actions, and how can we differentiate between ‘weak’ and ‘strong’?

If a boy whose dream is to become a software programmer, and he pursue his study in programming but found that he doesn’t have talents in this field. Even though he tried, he still can’t do well in programming and so he change his way to become a graphic artist instead. Now, does his action shows that he is to weak to hold on to his dream of becoming a software programmer, or does it shows that he is strong enough to let that dream go and turn his way to be a graphic artist? Or a college student who was taking art course but then found out that the art field isn’t doing well in the market, and so he change his way and took business course instead. Is that a sign of being ‘weak‘, or being ‘strong’?

People always give up when they can’t go on doing something because they either keep meeting a dead end, or fail again and again in doing it. People also tends to give up when they can’t see success in the future of what they’re doing even if it‘s a dream that they have held on to for so long, and when these things happen they‘ll use the same words to make themselves feel better. When these situations happen, isn’t it the same as running away, or is it different? Where’s the line that separates ‘weak’ and ‘strong enough to let go’, or maybe these words are truly made only to justify our action of giving up on something?

~ by zaid87 on April 7, 2007.