Do the easy stuff counts too?

Throughout our lives all of us go through the hard stuff of life. When we are kids we don’t have as many responsibilities as we have when we are grown ups. Usually our parents are always trying to provide everything we need, saving us the hard work because at that age we can’t really do much. What is the gratitude that we show to our parents after they provide us with food, toys, commodities that were obtained through their hard work? We call it childish behavior. It is when a kid throw his food on the floor, when he destroys his own toys and when then he asks for a better toy after destroying the previous one. Children do these things because they don’t appreciate what they have because they didn’t make any effort to get it.

Later in our lives when we are more independent, we start to appreciate the value of things. When things are hard to get they have more value. We as human, have to overcome all the difficulties of daily life. Each person have their own problems, but all of us have something similar that help us overcome them. The joy of a challenge. As humans we are always looking seize our goals and dreams and after we accomplish them, we look for another dream, another challenge that would bring meaning to this futile life. Brutus Hamilton couldn’t express it better when he said “It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest people.”

The monotony of our life can be destroy by simply setting other goals or looking for defying challenges. If we are not afraid of new challenges, we will live our life in its maximum.

Carpe Diem.