I'm not sure it gets better, but I have new weapon I'm waiting to pick up, I just bought the Resident Evil remake, and I think I'll rewatch World War Z after work today. So I've got that going for me.
Like honestly, you get used to it and then life gets easy but make it harder by getting out yo comfort zone cause tbh I had been going through some challenges and i never felt as alive as I felt when I accomplished them, life's pretty much boring and mundane if it's too easy
A little bit of A and a little bit of B. If you start running- running will be hard. You’ll get tired quickly and won’t likely be very fast and you’ll be very sore after. If you run the exact same distance at the exact same speed every day for years- you’ll adapt and it will be easier- but you’ll still likely have some work.
But if as it gets easier, you start running further and faster than you could before- it will get hard again, as you keep improving what you can do. At some point the work you’ll need to do to get better will be more. You can’t just go run around the park when you feel like and see professional results. You’ll need to watch what you eat and drink, get proper rest, plan your training and recovery if you want to get better- and by the time you’re doing it Olympic medal level- you’ll really have to be serious and put work in your training.
But the regiment that is needed which was this hard thing at first, it always has its difficulties but becomes more normal. Your training and the running are still hard- but walking up stairs or running after a bus or heater become so much easier.
So- life can be hard because we are struggling, we have to climb all these stairs and are out of breath- or the stairs can all be very easy but that’s because we train hard to make it easy. Life always has difficulties, things you want and can’t have, things you had but lost and can’t get back, so and so. But to an extent we can CHOOSE what we want to be hard and try to make the hardest things we regularly face the ones we can deal with on our terms. But I’d say it does also get easier in a way.
If you’re adapting to life, if you’re seeing hardships in your life as opportunities to identify where you could put effort to make those things easier- you’re going to get what I’ll call “tools” or “resources.” Skills, experience, knowledge, material tools to help us like transportation and convenience appliances and electronics, friends and loved ones to support us and help us when things are too hard to overcome alone or a little help with the load would be nice- and with luck, financial tools to make problems that used to be hard for us- not even problems any more.
But like our runner- we seldom just stop trying for more- and even if we do the world doesn’t stop. So as we grow we tend to look for the next challenge or the next thing we think will improve life or we want to change- we have to maintain the things we already have built or acquired as well- so there are new difficulties we face.
A new relationship may make our lonely times easier. It may give us support to do better in life and want to be better ourselves. Perhaps they move in and it makes paying bills and rent easier. But the relationship takes effort and learning a compromise too. It brings potential hardship and pain as well.
Tl:dr- the difficulty of life is often a measure of, and/or the result of our own ambitions. If you only want to lay in a field alone until you die- life can be pretty darned easy. The more you want, the more work you’ll tend to have to do, or the more pain you’ll likely feel from not having what you want. Some of life is getting used to things and adapting, and some actually does get easier as you gain resources and tools and people to help you with things that used to be difficult- but as long as you are growing- you’ll be struggling. If you aren’t growing- that may bring its own difficulties too. Life by its nature has good and bad. We have some choice in the matter of what we want to be hard or not- but there are things we can’t control in the world no matter what. The closest we have to control is our own emotions and perceptions and expectations.
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