By: Gabriela Yareliz
Some people look down on the ones who take the hard road. We live in a time where you can find easy if you want it.
These days, things are so convenient that we as a human race lack intimacy with each other (even in the nonsexual sense) because “real intimacy requires inconvenience” (David Leon). If you want to lose weight, you can follow the steps of celebrities who take a drug and drop all their stubborn weight. If you want longer hair, you can just clip in extensions. If you want a tan, you can spray it on. If you want to eat but don’t want to cook from scratch, you can order in or do a Sandra Lee semi-homemade situation. Kids these days use AI for their homework.
But there is strength and also deep satisfaction in the hard way. When you make a good home-cooked meal; when you get fit through hours of sweat; when you care for your hair and grow it out; a tan that shows hours spent in the sun having fun; an assignment where you poured out your creativity.
The hard way is important, Sahil Bloom writes, “We don’t value what’s easy. We value what we earn.
Because nothing feels better than a hard-earned win. Nothing. The pain. The struggle. The resilience. The grit. And then, the reward. The thrill of knowing that you paid the cost of entry for the thing you wanted to achieve.
Hard things are good for the soul.”
GABRIELA YARELIZ 