It’s okay to hang up something you used to love. The years you spent on it still shaped your hands.

Stopping is not the same as wasting. An activity you gave years to changed how you think, what you notice, how you handle being bad at something, and none of that leaves when the activity does. Treating the end as a failure requires believing the only value was in continuing, which is rarely true of anything.

If something you loved has become an obligation, you are allowed to set it down without a verdict attached. Name one thing it gave you that you still use. Keep what it built in you and let the schedule go.