The great thing about life is being able to try so many different activities and finding new hobbies for yourself. One minute you could be teaching yourself how to play a cello and the next you might decide you're going to get your Zumba teaching certification. The world is at your fingertips and you can do anything and everything you want as long as you put your mind to it.

However, there seems to be a generalization that when one decides to switch up on their activities, it results in them being quitters. They may give up one thing to join something else. To others, it seems as though they are wasting their time and that they should settle down. To that person, they believe that they can end an activity just as soon as they begin another.

Why is it that when someone has decided to leave one hobby for something else, or suddenly stop an activity and might not pick up anything else, that they are quitting?

In a way, if someone decides to altogether stop what they are doing and not do anything at all, then perhaps that person may be lazy and not doing anything with their life. Yet no one has a right to judge someone else because everyone is different in their own way. Maybe a person has done or worked too long and has decided to take a break from everything, that should be completely OK.

Whatever a person chooses to do with their life, they should have a right to do it. Anything other people say otherwise doesn't really have much of a say so seeing as they have their own life to handle and go about things that they want to do. Imagine: Being your own human being, doing what you want and love to do only for you to stress over what someone else is or is not doing with their life...Sounds tragic if you ask me.

Perspectively, if a person has decided that they've worked all of their life and wants to switch into other modes of entertaining themselves, they should do it. Stopping something abruptly after doing it for years, months, or days shouldn't be looked at as "quitting."

While the word "quitter" is defined as "a person who gives up a task easily or does not have the courage or determination to finish a task," maybe a person doesn't want to or feel as though they are inadequate to finish a task. That doesn't mean that someone should look at them in a negatively light, unless say a person was supposed to do an important task for work but stopped, then that may need to be handled more maturely.

Yet, if it's an activity that is so simple as a sport, instrument, or a job that's been nothing but troublesome or they want to substitute it to be a mime (going out on a limb here), then let that person do them and you do you.

That word itself contains too many negative associations. Maybe it's only one-sided, but the term feels as though it brings someone down from that person who has used the word. Once they use that term, it feels as though I'm not able to search for more out of life or to try a bunch of activities without it seeming like it's the worst thing possible. It's not.

Life, as you may or may not have heard repeatedly, is huge. A human being is just one of many in this place we call Earth, and you're telling us that we can't decide to stop one thing for another?

Plenty of people have started and stopped something because they weren't getting fulfillment out of it. They've tried other things constantly in order to be where they feel they should be and in that regard, it has perhaps brought them many joys out of life.

"Quitting", "quit", or "quitter" should be dealt away with. If a person truly, absolutely loves something they will continue to go after it and not give up. It will just take them a while to go over the hurdles that life presents.