When is the last time you wanted to "throw in the towel"? Did you?
One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Mike Trippiedi
Taking care of a sick mother, you always feel like throwing in the towel, but she never threw in the towel raising me and I gave her many opportunities. That towel will always be within reaching distance, but it will never be touched.
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What great timing for this question. When did I want to throw in the towel last...that would be yesterday. If it was not for the fact that I need my job (and the money) I could have so easily just walked away yesterday. Today will be a better day and I will be happy I kept that towel.
I spent 27 years serving this country. There were a lot of times I asked myself if I wanted to "throw in the towel". I mean I already knew how to be miserable, I knew how to sleep on the rocky ground, how to be away from home for the holidays, not see the kids graduate,and not have that "home cooked meal".
But you know what? I would not trade any of that now. There are others that have followed in my footsteps, and are now carrying on the traditions that I carried from someone else.
You just can't throw in the towel.
(Sorry exceeded the one minute)
I'm embarassed to say, "yes, I've thrown in the towel." This could be taken a couple of ways. I'm an alcoholic, two years recovering. I "threw in the towel" on my life, years ago. I knew i was dying, and just gave up. I've been given another chance. Medical marvel, or just plain lucky, call me what you will. I'm back, two years sober and ready to take on anything this world has to offer. Bring it on!!! Oh yeah, I don't even own a towel anymore...
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Not that I use the exact phrase "throw in the towel," but I do want to just quit & go home. Senior year is proving to be more difficult, more challenging (& not in a good way), compared to the stories I've heard of how easy it is to be a senior. Well, not me. It's so difficult not to say "I quit" when the finish line is just a few months away.
I have recently taken over a new department at work. For the last 2500 years I have been doing the same job and I was good at it, really good. Now, I find myself out of the comfort zone and tossed to the wolves out in the cold hard world. I am not one to throw in the towel or even think about giving up, USUALLY. This case is no different, I do not intend to give up, but I have for the first time ever, located that towel so that if need be I will throw it in instead of getting pummeled.
Today ... about ten minutes ago actually ... I threw all the towels in. And when they're clean, I'll throw in the sheets!
Taking care of a sick mother, you always feel like throwing in the towel, but she never threw in the towel raising me and I gave her many opportunities. That towel will always be within reaching distance, but it will never be touched.
A month ago, I erased my past posts on my blogsites. Different reasons. Good ones, so I thought. I never touched the titles. I dont't like quitters. I am posting now. The towel almost went flying. I am smiling.
glnroz33.blogspot.com , you're invited.
Tonight, I wanted to throw in the towel. Laying out book pages, all the research is done, the pages are written, but that danged formatting just WASN'T taking hold. HOURS I spent trying to work it out. Then, I clicked just the right combo of buttons. Disaster averted - book project saved. Husband has mixed emotions. Soon to lose his garage...again.
Thanks for choosing my One-Minute Writing yesterday ^^ :) *does little happy dance*
The last time I wanted to throw in the towel...was this morning, while trying to get the printer to work. Finally did. Flung a towel over it, in fact. And after a couple of hours, there it was, cranking away at what it does best. It's a times like these that one feels resistentialism is based on solid fact. Ah well.
Ooh, I meant *at* times. Keyboards are at it too!
Usually every other day.
But I dont and that's what matters.
I dont think its really possible to give up anyway, just to move on...
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