Can Life Be Easier Than What We Think?

 

Describe life WHATEVER way you want it BUT as this poster goes, LIFE IS EASIER THAN YOU THINK.  BUT I do agree that there could be problems with wanting LIFE TO BE EASY.  This ISN'T intended to be a post in support of drudgery OR making life difficult for yourself.  Frankly, I'm all for doing things in the most straightforward and simplest way, HOWEVER, believing that life should be inherently easy and straightforward is often a fast pass to dissatisfaction, frustration OR worse, anger OR worst, even depression.  True, sometimes things will come easily to you and it is indeed important for us to enjoy those parts of our life that seem to slot into place.  HOWEVER, WHEN people assume that things should [REALLY?] come easily and [STILL?] believe at some level that the core aspects of life such as relationships and work should generally be plain sailing, it often leads to feeling cheated📗📙📘

Furthermore, it can also feel AS IF there is something wrong with you if you find certain parts of your life that challenging while other people seem to sail through it, right?  Finding things difficult can somehow become a fault OR even worse, an indemic character flaw OR defect.  Then, understandably, this often leads to people giving up OR can contribute to a perpetual sense of failure.  Relationships end because sometimes the parties involved feel 'too difficult'💚💛💜

So, WHERE does the belief that life should run smoothly come from?  Let's dip into some life hacks in our sleeves dude.  LIKE WHEN someone raises their voice.  True, each one of us did raise our voice at one point OR another in the past BUT having said that, yelling is NOT healthy for any relationship NOR is it a great way to yield healthy results💥💥💥

I remember one of Mark Twain's poems saying "ANGER IS AN ACID THAT CAN DO MORE HARM TO THE VESSEL IN WHICH IT IS STORED THAN ANYTHING ON WHICH IT IS POURED".  BUT before we react prematurely, we need to understand WHY someone is yelling and we need to be thoughtful as to HOW we will react to that yelling.  YES, in the end, it is the right and appropriate approach that can likely help diffuse an ongoing friction that seems to conflagrate.  In the quickest way, NEVER AGREE to someone's arguments you totally agree to it.  I've known first hand people WHO are so conciliatory, ending up to be nodding WHEN he does NOT agree to it😡😡😡

Our takeaway:  Looking back, I'd admit many times I was in those 'downtimes' and WHAT happened next, you can guess it right now, I ended up anxious and stressed.  My way out?  I grabbed my paper and pen, scribbled anything and everything I wanted to blurt out.  Psychologists have coined this as 'expressive writing' as you literally express out your inner thoughts and feelings with NO filtering.  Trust me, it can be an effective way of engaging with our bottled-up emotions WHICH, in turn, releases stress and would even boost our mental health.  So, CAN LIFE BE EASIER THAN WHAT WE THINK???