Great list courtesy of Jim Quinn at The Burning Platform. The key to resilience, and ironically, the key to true happiness… Live hard.
- Math is hard
- Ignorance is easy
- Getting a good education is hard
- Not studying is easy
- Saving money is hard
- Spending money is easy
- Delayed gratification is hard
- Buying what you want today using a credit card is easy
- Saving money and buying cars, clothes and electronics with cash is hard
- Leasing cars and carrying credit card balances is easy
- Honoring your contracts and commitments is hard
- Defaulting on your obligations is easy
- Accepting responsibility for your life and actions is hard
- Irresponsibility and blaming others is easy
- Getting married and raising a family is hard
- Getting a girl pregnant and walking away is easy
- Reality is hard
- Delusions are easy
- Planning for the future is hard
- Hoping things turn out for the best is easy
- Critical thinking is hard
- Believing a lie is easy
- Sacrificing for future generations is hard
- Selfishness is easy
- Freedom and liberty are hard
- Dependence and an entitlement mentality are easy
- Keeping our noses out of other countries’ business is hard
- Telling other countries what to do at gunpoint is easy
- Negotiating with countries on an equal basis is hard
- Invading a country pre-emptively is easy
- Living within our means is hard
- Deficit spending is easy
- Managing our own currency in a prudent manner is hard
- Letting private bankers control our currency for their benefit is easy
- Defending yourself against crime with a gun is hard
- Hoping the police will keep you safe from criminals is easy
- Living your life with as little state control or impact on your life is hard
- Depending on the state for protection and your welfare is easy
- Resisting a corrupt criminal government is hard
- Passively bowing down to the state is easy
- Taking care of each other is hard
- Letting the government take care of others is easy
- Staying healthy is hard
- Getting fat and sickly is easy
- Hard work is hard
- Being lazy is easy
- Finding a job is hard
- Collecting unemployment is easy
- Being honest, truthful and forthright is hard
- Lying is easy
- Earning trust and respect is hard
- Expecting respect automatically is easy
- Going to work every day for forty years is hard
- Pretending to be disabled and collecting SSDI for life is easy
- Holding politicians accountable is hard
- Voting for the politician that promises you the most is easy
- Keeping a Rebublic is hard
- Allowing oligarchs to gain control over our Republic was easy
- Life is hard
- Tough shit – anything worthwhile in life is not easy
- This Fourth Turning will be hard
- There is no guarantee that we make it to the next First Turning where life would be easier
