When Is The Right Time To Quit?

Justin Patton
5 min readDec 7, 2020

From a certified quitter.

For most of my life, I’ve been a quitter.

The first sport I quit was wrestling, and quite frankly I wasn’t any good anyway. Quitting wrestling at the age of 10 was the first time in my life I realized it was okay to quit something.

I quit soccer when I got to high school. Even though I was a much better soccer player, I wanted to focus on basketball. Plus it was the much “cooler” sport. Girls in high school weren’t checking for soccer players.

I quit the band when I got into high school as well. I was nice on the saxophone, but I wanted to be at the football games chasing girls, causing trouble, and having fun rather than dressed in a band uniform marching around the field at half-time. I was “too cool” for that.

When I got to college, I got even better at quitting.

I quit my internship at the radio station because I was kicked out of the Valentine’s Day party at the Velvet Room.

I quit my duties as the manager of Georgia State men’s basketball team because I didn’t want to wash another grown man’s underwear.

I quit writing in the school newspaper for reasons unbeknownst to myself.

Let’s not even talk about dating and romantic relationships…

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Justin Patton
Justin Patton

Written by Justin Patton

Spoken word artist and writer. Living my life and writing about it along the way, it just might inspire somebody. IG: @iamjustinpatton

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