Three and a half years later, I independently created a metaphor that required me to google dead bird in beautiful landscape. I took it on a solo road trip around Iceland back in 2013, just because I thought it was creepy that feathers apparently don’t fall off of a bird carcass. ![]() The best part about that image is that I’ve been sitting on that photo for years. And because that marketing intern has now been stuck in her job for five years even though she really just wants to go make cheese on a farm in Wisconsin, she’s too cranky and hungover to make me my inspirational graphic, so now I have to do that too. So here I am, doing all of his leg work (without steroids, so it’s much harder) and wondering what it is about this quitting thing that makes people give themselves permission to be miserable. Quit because it’s stupid.” But Lance was otherwise occupied. If Lance was really looking out for us, he would have said “Don’t quit because it’s hard. But nobody saw themselves in that sad little bird, because they were too busy trying to force themselves to stick with something that actually needs to end. Quitting lasts forever,” some marketing intern who just learned Photoshop took that quote, overlaid it over a misty forest scape, and then released it into the internet like a injured bird out for its first flight.Īnd then a big cat came along and ate that damn bird because that thing was in a weakened state and Instagram is full of lies. As Lance was busy juicing his quads while also spouting platitudes like “Pain is temporary. I blame Lance Armstrong and Instagram for ruining the power of quitting.
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