Caroline O'Donoghue: Quitting - cutting loose from something that is weighing you down - is its own kind of victory

The lightness in your step will be reward enough

Caroline O'Donoghue

Once, in a Film History class at college, our lecturer told us that the way people died changed between World War I and World War II. During the first world war, she said, when soldiers were shot and killed they fell backwards.

By the second, they were falling forwards.