How is it that when you have no time you do thinks that need time, and when you have time you don’t do things that need time? Very reminiscent of life might I add. Lots of the things we do, we do when we aren’t supposed to or when the answer to all of our problems are right in front of our face, but unfortunately we don’t like simplicity. We enjoy, relish, want, need, etc. struggle. We live and die in and for struggle. Am I crazy? Am I wrong? Am I confused? I may be these things concerning other concepts, but before you can understand this you need to see from where I am coming from.
Struggle. Think about that word for a second before you read on and also close your eyes and just try to conjure up an image of the word. The Oxford-American Dictionary defines struggle as to “make forceful or violent efforts to get free of restraint or constriction” or it can also be read as to “make one’s way with difficulty.” Our whole life is numerous struggles drawn out in a linear fashion. From the beginning of our life we struggle out of the womb, gasping for air and the end of our life is no different. All of us go through this and no one is special. Definitely though, some are put through more struggle than others and the opposite is also true. I am not here to say who these people are, but I can safely say that most of the people I know have not been through as tough a struggle as each other or as tough of a struggle as people who live in other parts of the world, such as Africa, the Middle-East, etc.
Now, I think you’re asking some questions at this point, why am I reading this? Don’t I have anything better to do? What the HELL does this have to do with anything? Or what does this have to do with my first point of simplicity? Well if you’re reading this very sentence you are interested in finding out and you are not in the category of the people who think I’m retarded. Or maybe you are in that category and this note is to further prove to yourself I am. Well whatever you are, I am now going to take you on this fantastical journey.
Human beings are prone to repeat the same things that they are used to doing, and it’s hard to change habits; even though they may know what they are doing is wrong. That is the same thing with struggle, and struggle is something that has been and will be with us forever. Simplicity is not something we are used to and it is introduced into our lives later on during our lives, so we don’t trust it. We don’t believe that somethings can have a simple solution. We question it over and over again, we’re like, “…really? That easy?” Simplicity of things is like listening to our parents when they tell us not to do certain things; simplicity is doing the right thing when we know the wrong thing is, well, wrong; simplicity is being with the person you know is right with the things he/she has done for you or is willing to do things for you
Unfortunately we distrust simplicity so much that we make things into a struggle. We make up dumb excuses that try to justify why we have to distrust that simplicity for the struggle. We justify that our parents don’t want us to be cool so we sneak out of the house or not do what they say; we do the wrong thing because we think the right thing will some how screw us out of something now or later on down the line; we don’t get with the guy/girl who will be best for us because its…just…to…easy. Sometimes struggle is good, though. We learn from struggle. Struggle allows us to grow and make smarter decision down the line, but the key is we need to learn from that struggle and not repeat the same (but we usually do – refer to above). Thus life is struggle from the beginning to the end. Fortunately though, at the end of the day it’s a beautiful struggle.
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