The Subtle Difference Between Simple and Easy
They are not the same thing.
Many people wish they had easy lives.
Honestly, who doesn’t want easy money, easy relationships, an easy job — a comfortable life without working hard… It sounds ideal.
But an easy life is as harmful as sugar to a diabetic.
How Easy Makes Life Difficult
Have you heard of people who invested in “tips” and get-rich-quick schemes because they wanted to make easy money? The story often ends with their hard-earned wealth getting wiped out.
Then there are people who want easy relationships. Their partners should invest double the effort to make the relationship work while they invest none. Such relationships always brim with tension and stress.
You also know people who’ve had the same job for so long that they can do it with their eyes closed. Good luck with getting them to step outside their comfort zone and keep up with times. They stick to the “it’s-always-done-like-this” belief like a life vest on a sinking ship when this rigid belief is actually the sinking ship.
When the world moves ahead — and it always does — they get left behind like broken toys.
