Nothing lasts forever

How does a professional athelete know when to retire? Biggio did it the right way and retired when he was on top, but what if he did still have a couple of years in him? Roger Clemens has been on the verge of retiring for the past four years, but look at how good he has been the last four years.

I just wonder if I will know when to stop certain things in my life. When will I be too old to go out partying anymore? When will I just start to look like the old creepy man at the clubs instead of mixing in with the rest of the crowd? When will I have nothing left to say for this site?

There are plenty of days I have things I want to add, but I don't take the time out at that second and write them down. I forget what I wanted to express later that day, so I just create new content that is on my mind at that moment.

I was watching this live video feed on the Internet yesterday of a guy playing a video game for 72 hours straight (yeah, that's how dorky my life is right now). Well, he was supposed to be playing for 72 hours straight and he would win an Xbox 360 and a video game. He was 26 hours into the contest and just gave up. He wasn't tired, but he said he mentally could not play the game anymore. He was burnt out 26 hours into the game and could not go any further. He probably could have gone another 12 hours easily, but he made the decision to stop playing. Why did he quit instead of playing until he couldn't stay awake any longer?

I think you have to know yourself very well to be at that level. To know when you just don't want to do something anymore and decide to stop. Since I can not imagine myself doing something like that, I have realized that I barely know myself. Something as simple as stopping when you don't feel like it is foreign to me. I can only hope that one day I will retire this site when I'm on top. I dont' think that will be any time soon though because I have so much more to say and so little time to say it.