Give Up
It's easy to persevere and much harder to give up.
I’m always reminded of Homer Simpson's sage-like wisdom when he says, “If at first you don’t succeed, give up.” Nothing will enrage the poor superego-laden people who have swallowed the notion that their life should be one of swimming against the current more than Homer’s wisdom. It is also worth pointing out right at the start of this piece that nothing is more difficult than “giving up.” To give up requires the ability to murder our best-loved children, our silly ambitions that are nothing more than imagination, to see life and events as they are rather than how we would like them to be. To “give up” is a sage-like quality that comes from having developed a certain distance from our uniquely cruel superego, our societal conditioning, and maybe religious conditioning, and having open hands to accept how life is. Nietzsche expresses this beautifully in Ecce Homo: