Do you know what the true quiet quitting is?
When you want the time, attention, effort and energy you put out to be appreciated and in some form returned and you come to the realization it is not.
When you yearn so much to be validated, seen, and heard, and when you recognize it doesn’t materialize and you just give up.
Quietly of course, your opinions get quieter and smaller, you begin to ask less, you begin to do less and you feel the shrinking taking place.
It happens in small ways at first, and not in every place in your life at the same time. It’s barely even noticeable because nothing was noticeable to begin with in that space.
Until finally the space that you took up is all but folded it on itself and winked out like a little fairy light.
That my friends is a quiet quitting,
everyone trying so hard to be heard and very few taking the time to listen. We eventually stop putting in the extra time and attention in the places we feel undervalued.
This happens in every place we inhibit, work, school, friend relationships, family relationships- our daily lives.
Nothing is ever truly balanced, that is one of life’s hard truths. Another, is that no one ( not even ourselves) can live up to the expectations we create. Compassion and understanding are needed for moments of unbalance, but should not have to be the space you always operate from.
Perhaps this is the truest form of self love? To often this disconnect is unnoticed, or blame shifted to the person receding. A reaction of fear that the person/place being receded from may need to be accountable.
What are/have you quietly quit? What was the outcome? Who has quietly quit from a work or personal relationship with you? Do you understand, will you admit your role in the dissolution? Have you ever noticed the places you quietly quit on yourself?
Standing Still at the Speed of Light 