Difficulty is Easy and so is the Other Way Around

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We often hear people say things like “wow, you’re so good at X, how did you get good at it so easily?” or “that’s just too hard for me”.

I believe that nothing is truly easy nor hard. I am good at learning languages, yet I feel it is hard to get good at it. I am not good (yet?) at writing but I feel it is easy to write when I start.

This is a simple example of how anything may feel one way and be the other way around in reality.

Finding topics to write is complicated, but once found, it is easy to go on and on about the one decided on. Learning a language is easy in itself (learn words, grammar, conjugation and there you go) but the actual study is a hassle to go through.

Whenever, just like today for this tiny article, we feel the difficulty to start, to make a decision, to go on with the task, we need to remember that nothing is easy. Things can get easier but nothing really is ever easy.

In the same way, nothing is difficult. There are things more difficult than others but if we put enough efforts into it, they can become less difficult to do.

When realizing a task fully is too complicated, you can go with the bare minimum and be satisfied to have kept your word to yourself. The next will be easier.

And then the next. And then again the next one too.

Because nothing’s easy but nothing’s hard either.