Do Hard Things if You Want an Easy Life

<p>The other day my mom told me about a family member who had a flat tire on her bike. This relative doesn&rsquo;t live an easy life.</p> <p>She had a doctor&rsquo;s appointment and when she pulled out her bike to go there, she discovered the flat. She doesn&rsquo;t have a car. So she ended up walking to the doctor&rsquo;s office. To make it worse, it also started to rain after a few minutes into her walk.</p> <p>She barely made it. I thought, &ldquo;Man, I&rsquo;m lucky. I have an easy life.&rdquo; But then I also thought, &ldquo;I did a lot of hard things to get here.&rdquo;</p> <p>I remember the&nbsp;<a href="https://dariusforoux.com/frugality/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">days of not having much</a>. When I was 17, I had a full-time job during the entire summer at a call center. One day I was cycling to work and a massive downpour started about halfway through.</p> <p>If I stopped to get shelter from the rain, I would&rsquo;ve been late. I also couldn&rsquo;t return to get the bus. I had to keep cycling.</p> <p>Man, I still remember how I felt when I showed up at work, completely SOAKED in water, from my socks to my underwear. I sat down, at 9 AM and started making my calls.</p> <p>During my breaks, I went to the bathroom and tried to dry my clothes piece by piece with the electric hand dryer. That whole day I sat in my chair with wet clothes, cursing at everything in my mind.</p> <p>I was livid. I didn&rsquo;t want a hard life like that.</p> <h1>A hard life versus doing hard things</h1> <p>Looking back, I&rsquo;m grateful for experiences like that when I was in my teens and early twenties. It taught me that&nbsp;<a href="https://dariusforoux.com/underestimated-gratitude/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">a hard life can be like a black hole</a>&nbsp;that you can&rsquo;t get out from.</p> <p>My luck was that after the summer, I went to college. My parents, who never went to college, forced me to study. I really wanted to keep working because I thought that having my own money would make my life easy.</p> <p><a href="https://dariusforoux.medium.com/do-hard-things-if-you-want-an-easy-life-2012f49231b5"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>
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