quitting

In the almost 3 years I've been cubing, I've never taken a break or quit before. If you've ever taken breaks from cubing, what was it like? What did you do instead? How long was it until you wanted to begin cubing again?

I'll start: I was at Sub 50-40 at the time, and my parents were like "You know, I think you should move on from cubing.". For a second I actually considered it. We were watching the news at that time. At that exact moment, I don't know if got lucky or something, but there was a headline about a...