Live hard. Ease life.

My major beef with humans is this: they love everything easy. In everything. In anything.

It’s so easy to complain. They do it. It’s so easy to say something is hard, so they avoid doing it. Basically, nobody appreciates the fact that being hard on yourself now is going to make things easier later. But when, exactly, is later?

Today, was “The Annual Wooden Bridge Competition”. An event that our school hosts every year. It’s self explanatory really. Civil engineering schools from across the UAE build bridges; we load them, the one that carries the most, wins.

Unfortunately, I was the one in charge of the whole thing because accidentally, on purpose, I’m the president of the student association. Not fun, or cool, or smart, I assure you.

I was basically the punching bag of 25 participating teams. 6 members per team, on average. The caterer. The trophy guy. The wood guy. The certificates guy. Anyone today was basically Aladdin, and I was the possessed carpet everyone was stepping all over.

EVERYONE was just complaining. They lose, they win, inevitably, they complain. What bothered me the most is the word “unfair”. How easily people just throw it out there. I can’t begin to describe how infuriating this word is. Simply because it’s the easiest way out of a situation. Not quantifiable. Not tangible. An absolutely preposterous word.

Yet, everyone uses it as if it is a solid argument, because it is after all, easy. You can argue that your whole existence, the very core of your being, is unfair. Can’t you argue that it’s unfair that the choice you’re on this Earth isn’t yours? Can’t you argue that it’s unfair you have no control of when this same life will be taken away from you?

But in this situation, people just accept that it happens. Because it’s easier to accept its reality, rather than to ponder the complexity of it.

But the truth of the matter is that, the previous questions were nowhere close as to how simple the little trifles everyone today was complaining about are. If some of the yappers knew the technical background of some things, they’d realize the thing they were arguing was unfair, was actually fair. But it’s easier to want to win, than admit they lost because they didn’t know something. If they had explored their surroundings a little to realize how futile their “it’s unfair” argument is, they might have had a chance to accept they were wrong. But again, admitting you’re wrong isn’t easy.

But life is easy. Work is easy. Love is easy. Our mistake is that we over simplify them, until we discover they are hard. If only we do it the other way around. Accept that they are hard. The easiness lies in the complexity. They’re simultaneous. When we discipline ourselves to do something on the basis that it isn’t easy…… Well, it becomes easy.