Many Facets of Entering and Exiting in Life

Jade Scott
5 min readOct 26, 2023
Photo by Milo Bauman on Unsplash

There comes a point when you are really at the end of the line and you want to give up. Enough is enough and it is time to throw in the towel. Whether it is from a relationship, a job, writing, social media, a hobby, a passion, yourself or even a moment in time,

there are many different kinds of endings.

There is the performative end. When you announce to everyone that this is the end and you really are done this time. You want to give up and you have every right to. The performative end is often a cry for someone to tell you not to stop and that keeps you going because that one person who is able to see you is the one who matters.

There is the second wind end. This is after you have done the performative end. This is where you have seriously tried it all and there are still no results. You have tried everything and nothing is ever going to amount from your efforts. You have tried everything for real this time and you are still tired and still are not making money and no one has noticed you except for that one guy Tim and Tim is wack and you can’t just keep doing it for Tim so you are done. You quit. This time you don’t give an announcement. You just leave and you set yourself free with this leaving you to try something else and take up another hobby while internally you are stewing about leaving the thing you truly…

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