Word of the Week #191:
Is life easy?
Is your life easy?
Because, sure, you can look at someone else’s life and think, “Boy, they have it easy. If only I…”
We do do that, do we not?
Our own life rarely seems easy.
It can seem good, yes, but knowing how hard we have had to work and how many things have had to go the right way to make it as good, we will never think it was easy. Instead, we might even get anxious about it, right?
What if I am not able to keep working this hard for the next 5, 10, 20 years? My life will come crashing down!
What if I do keep working hard and things still don’t work out? What if something random goes wrong and my life goes up in smoke.
Knowing that our wonderful little lives are nothing more than a house of cards can be daunting, and knowing that we cannot control how the wind blows can be harrowing.
How do we then keep our lives from crashing all around us?
My answer is quite simple: WE DON’T.
There are some things that are just beyond our control. That fact will never change.
That is the curse of humanity: Sentience and potence without omniscience and omnipotence.
So, what do you do?
Well, you could do nothing, and simply give in to the entropy, but that is not what you want to do, right?
Instead, why not just learn how to rebuild your house of cards? Each time you try it, build it faster and better.
Simple.
That makes things easier, right?
Any way the wind blows,
Doesn’t really matter to me.—Freddie Mercury, Bohemian Rhapsody
