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Comment by limaoscarjuliet | Hacker News Reader

I feel you. The part that resonates with me the most is we have a choice to make: give up or fight. Our time will pass either way.

I had many of these moments in my life and, after some hesitation, always picked the get up and fight mode. I hope you will too. It wil get us places for sure.

Good luck with your life, carry on!

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I don't know if I may misunderstand you, but from personal experience this approach is quite risky, all these little "get up" fights will compound, wear you off and lead to a hard collapse in the end, small patching will just prolong the crash. It's important to see (with help) when the "fight" is just not worth it anymore and sometimes pulling the emergency break is the best thing to do, jeahh you'll may hurt/disappoint others when doing so, but for the sake of your own health and sanity this is quite often the better choice (imho).

In my case, with every new challenge I try not to repeat mistakes of the past. I change things and sometimes for good.

And yes, need a break every now and then!

It’s weird, but I’ve gone the opposite way. Whenever I get to the point where it’s ‘lie down and give up, or get up and fight’, I feel like it’s perfectly fine for me to just lie down and see if I’ll have motivation another day.

Yeah, but then you have: It seems like every week or two this year, another crisis presented itself, each manageable in isolation.

I've had this happen and it really grinds you down when you work full-out for months and, just when you think you've contained all the crises, the next one drops.

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