10 Feb 2025
Looking back over the last few years, it feels like I have been drifting through life.
Many of us are just drifting through life. Sure most people, when they come of age, go out and get a job of some kind - find something somebody needs done and that they'll pay us for and start working to pay the bills and buy gadgets and enternain ourselves.
In the past, life wasn't as easy as it is these days. These days, at least in much of the western world, life is pretty easy. We have personal computers, cell phones, and the internet. We can look up how-to videos for so many things. Our mobile phones can tell us how to navigate to almost anywhere we need to go in our day-to-day lives.
In the past, just getting through life was itself difficult. Now, what's tough is that if you want to accomplish something great, you have to motivate yourself. It's too easy to just sit back and not push yourself to do more.
I don't want to over- or under-estimate how easy or hard things were in the past, but it does certainly seem true that life is easier now. Taking charge of your life is more of a challenge because of how easy the alternative is. Maybe this has always been true.
Food for thought.