because you can't tread water forever.
In order to learn the art of resignation, most specifically in situations where we desperately want to act, sometimes we must have our hands tied behind our backs. We must be placed right in the thick of things...bound, sans blindfold.
If this process is repeated in various situations, the individual will gradually become more accepting of the scenarios he or she used to desire some control over/want to fight against. These events will inevitably remain frustrating... and the desire to act, even in part, will still be there. That may never fully go away.
Over time though, one will learn to concede...because of the simple (yet somehow abundantly complicated) fact that, in all reality, there is nothing left to do but look the situation in the face... and surrender.
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This is one notation that is definitely not nonsensical... I'd have to agree that most people will back down when faced with constant opposition. No matter how right one believes he/she is, if they keep banging their heads against a brick wall, you either learn that pain hurts or suffer a concussion...
Some people failed to learn this lesson early enough: Saddam Hussein, Barry Bonds, O.J. Simpson, Britney Spears, etc.
Although some of the most inspiring stories in history have been accounts of people who refused to surrender under insurmountable odds (e.g. Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, Boise State in 2007 Fiesta Bowl, etc.).
Quite the dichotomy.
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