A Walk Out Is Not An Option

In the fourth season of the HBO series Entourage, the main characters, after much anticipation, finally get to watch the film they made about a Colombian druglord, as edited by their director.

It was supposed to be a three- or four-hour long movie, and I bet somewhere in the middle the characters already had that dreadful feeling that it was going to end badly, that there was no twist at the end that would redeem everything at the finish.

I bet that if they didn't have so much invested in that project, they would have walked out themselves, as they knew some people with not much attachment to the work could do, believing that there would be something else somewhere they could do much more suited to their time and attention, where they would enjoy themselves more.

That's why sometimes it's better to be a spectator than to have ambitions that outweigh one's abilities.