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Sometimes Trying to Make Life Easier Only Makes Things Harder
Sometimes taking the easy way out doesn’t work in the long run.
If you don’t know, I’m one of the many Millennials who had to move back to my childhood home. One of my brothers and his fiancé live here too; I’ll call her Kay. Sharing a house with an engaged couple with a wedding fast approaching means I witnessed plenty of drama and stress.
But as a bride, losing your maid of honor two weeks before your wedding is a disaster — which is exactly what happened to Kay. The details of how it all went down are irrelevant, but while listening to Kay talk about it, I noticed something. Often, trying to make life easier actually just makes it harder.
Choices
We make an exhaustive amount of choices every day, whether consciously or not. From the moment you wake up, you face a choice — get up, go back to sleep, or lay in bed and scroll on your phone. You choose to shower and eat breakfast (or not), and it snowballs from there, especially when you’re responsible for others.
The point is, every word you speak, action, or inaction you take throughout your day is a choice. Some are conscious, some are routine, and others are purely subconscious, but they’re all choices. How we view the world, others, and…
