Giving up is so much easier than moving forward. It is easy to give up. All you have to do is say the words "I give up." After this, no more effort needs to be put forth and you are free. But if you actually want to progress through life you just can't give up. If you always give up and never try then you really will not do anything productive in your life. I could have given up right now. Right now I am sick. My nose is clogged up, everything is migrating into my chest and I am going back and forth between feeling like I just can not move to feeling like I can do it all. So I decided to try and put aside the fact that I am sick and do only what my body will physically allow. If I give up now my grades could be on the line. Finals are in the next 2 weeks and I have to at least make it for the sake of my grades. Many times in life we feel as though it would be easier to give up, say you are done, and move to the next thing that we will also give up on. Trying takes alot of effort. Progressing takes alot of effort and time. It is easier to say "I want to help the planet out." than do it. Just like it is easier to say " I give up." than trying. By giving up you are not only setting yourself up for failure, but you are pretty much stating " I'm to lazy to try." or "I've tried to hard and it hasn't gotten me anywhere." But if you did not give up, and still nothing is coming out of it you can say "At least I tried." And eventually all that trying will get you somewhere. I could have said "I give up." when I watched my mother drift away in the hospital. But even in a coma she never gave up. She fought it. Her heart was to strong to give up. Her ambition was to high to give up. It was also not in her nature to give up. If she would have given up, she would have not been in a coma for nearly a month. She would have flatlined within the first 5 minutes we recieved that phone call. But no, it took nearly 2 hours for her to give up. I could have said screw college I can not do it all by myself, with out my mom. I could have gave up and never lived the life I am living now. My wonderful Aunt told me "If you take a year off of college you won't go." I went. She was wrong. If I was to believe her and gave up than I would have never gone to college. She still tried to place my cousin above me " Your cousin received a scholarship for her wonderful grades in highschool and she works full time and goes to college full time." Good for her. I had great grades..but what did that get me? Not a scholarship. My lovely Aunt once again said to me when I was younger " One day you will be pretty and won't be fat." I could have gave up remembering I was chubby and just waited for that day to come. But I tried and am still trying to lose weight and feel good about myself. Death is attracted to me like a moth to a flame. My favorite cat died after 16 years of life on this earth. I sat with him petting him, letting him know that I was really with him until the end. That night he passed away. My dad had to bury him in the rain. I could have gave up and rejected love from another cat, but I did not. When we were very poor I really wanted to give up. Giving up would have been so much easier than realising we were poor. But being poor made me realise that I could possiably prevent this and if I tried hard enough and went to college than I might not be poor. I could change an outcome if I tried rather than giving up so quickly. It really is so much easier to give up than it is to try and progress. But instead of giving up being the first thing that comes to mind, the word "try" should come to mind first. Being a person that has gone through alot (I know some have gone through more) I would be a very likely candidate to give up. So If I have not given up than neither should anyone. I truly believe giving up is very unprogressive, because you have to try in order to progress, and if you give up you will never progress. Progress is moving forward and trying. If you do not take that chance you will never know what it would have been like if you would have tried rather than giving up. You can't save the world in one day alone, but if you try you will progress, and you will get somewhere instead of giving up and not moving forward. Just remember trying will get you somewhere, even if it does not seem like it eventually all of your hard work will pay off.