It's So Easy, It's Incredibly Difficult
It's funny and ironic how advances in technology have made each of our lives so much easier and in doing so have made them so much more complicated. Just think about all the things you have done today.
A typical daily task list could include things like getting your car washed, picking up the dry cleaning, running through the drive-thru, seeing a movie, or paying your bills online. And all the while you're doing this, you might be text messaging people across a continent or listening to any assortment of musical tastes on your personal music player.
All these things and many more like them are becoming easier and easier. Services are more and more convenient. Devices are smaller and more compact. And while this technology is leaving other people in the dust, the people who do catch on are just adding it to their already busy lives, making their lives all the more difficult to deal with. They become short-tempered, have very little patience or respect for how things used to be.
"You mean to tell me I can talk, text, check email, and play Bingo right from my phone? Paper? What's paper?"
But nowadays, things are so easy, people are obligated to do them. If a person's phone starts ringing, he or she might as well answer it. I mean, it's right there by your leg, it's not like it's across the room or something.
If a person can record two shows at once, while watching another show, and then watch the shows he or she previously recorded afterwards, while recording more shows, then the person ought not ever leave the house.
If I can put all my thoughts, hopes, and dreams on the internet, censor-free, for all to see and read at the click of a button, who's going to stop me?
Not only that, but I can order business cards.
The ease of all these things, though, has led to people taking more and more on at one time. People don't know when to say when. They lose track of what they were doing in the first place, while all this stuff was being invented. And then it becomes too hard to try to appease everybody, while pleasing themselves.
At times my Netflix movies stack up for weeks or months on end. I can't not watch them, though. I'm paying for them. I'm taking advantage of the service. Why shouldn't I if I am able to?
I think that a lot of people suffer from doing the easy thing. I include myself in that. A lot of people don't do the hard things and they just move from one easy task to one easy task. They lose sight of why the hard things are there in the first place. What makes it difficult is what makes it worth doing.
It would benefit everyone if we cut a few easy things out of our lives, and concentrated on what is really important.
A typical daily task list could include things like getting your car washed, picking up the dry cleaning, running through the drive-thru, seeing a movie, or paying your bills online. And all the while you're doing this, you might be text messaging people across a continent or listening to any assortment of musical tastes on your personal music player.
All these things and many more like them are becoming easier and easier. Services are more and more convenient. Devices are smaller and more compact. And while this technology is leaving other people in the dust, the people who do catch on are just adding it to their already busy lives, making their lives all the more difficult to deal with. They become short-tempered, have very little patience or respect for how things used to be.
"You mean to tell me I can talk, text, check email, and play Bingo right from my phone? Paper? What's paper?"
But nowadays, things are so easy, people are obligated to do them. If a person's phone starts ringing, he or she might as well answer it. I mean, it's right there by your leg, it's not like it's across the room or something.
If a person can record two shows at once, while watching another show, and then watch the shows he or she previously recorded afterwards, while recording more shows, then the person ought not ever leave the house.
If I can put all my thoughts, hopes, and dreams on the internet, censor-free, for all to see and read at the click of a button, who's going to stop me?
Not only that, but I can order business cards.
The ease of all these things, though, has led to people taking more and more on at one time. People don't know when to say when. They lose track of what they were doing in the first place, while all this stuff was being invented. And then it becomes too hard to try to appease everybody, while pleasing themselves.
At times my Netflix movies stack up for weeks or months on end. I can't not watch them, though. I'm paying for them. I'm taking advantage of the service. Why shouldn't I if I am able to?
I think that a lot of people suffer from doing the easy thing. I include myself in that. A lot of people don't do the hard things and they just move from one easy task to one easy task. They lose sight of why the hard things are there in the first place. What makes it difficult is what makes it worth doing.
It would benefit everyone if we cut a few easy things out of our lives, and concentrated on what is really important.
posted by Leland J. Fischer at 12:20 AM
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