Originally Posted By: JRuss
darknes -- that makes sense, if you do in fact want to be a professional soccer player. However, what if you'd been working on becoming one for 2.5 years, poured your soul into it, thought you really wanted it, but, lately were becoming increasingly struck with the thought that maybe you don't like soccer as much as you thought you did? What if soccer -- despite your efforts to make yourself the best player you could be -- made you unhappy? What if, every time you pulled up to the soccer field in your car, you felt dread and wondered how you'd get through the next practice? What if, despite looking for some glimmer for 2.5 years, soccer always found you wanting and not good enough?

Would you keep playing soccer, or just move onto whatever's next?


I think this is a very different question from this:
Originally Posted By: JRuss
I also feel like there's no plausible way I can blueprint out in my mind how we'd ever reconnect at this point.


It sounds like you are at the end of the process looking at the next step. Thats very different from being at the beginning and looking at the end.

If you are at the end of the process, then I think youre next step ar to figure out your next goals. If youre ready to give up soccer, what will you do next with your life?