What's Easy. What's Not.

A great blog by Christine Kane. You can find her stuff at: christinekane.com/blog.

What’s Easy. What’s Not.

It’s easy to be right.
It’s not easy to be kind.

It’s easy to hope.
It’s not easy to know.

It’s easy to complain.
It’s not easy to make requests.

It’s easy to have all kinds of retorts for the other person if they’d just shut up.
It’s not easy to listen.

It’s easy to be busy.
It’s not easy to be productive.

It’s easy to criticize.
It’s not easy to create.

It’s easy to say you don’t feel like it.
It’s not easy to do it anyway.

It’s easy to obsess.
It’s not easy to meditate.

It’s easy to resent people who take up your time.
It’s not easy to say no in the first place.

It’s easy to make excuses.
It’s not easy to take responsibility.

It’s easy to worry.
It’s not easy to make a plan.

It’s easy to come up with reasons why someone pissed you off.
It’s not easy to ask yourself how you participated.

It’s easy to dabble.
It’s not easy to commit.

It’s easy to flip the bird to the idiot driver behind you.
It’s not easy to just move out of his way.

It’s easy to fire off an angry email or blog comment.
It’s not easy to pause and breathe and clarify your feelings.

It’s easy to react to an angry email or blog comment by firing one back.
It’s not easy to pause and breathe and clarify your meaning.

It’s easy to say you don’t know what you want.
It’s not easy to admit what you want.

It’s easy to let a kid watch TV.
It’s not easy to find ways to play with a kid.

It’s easy to do urgent things.
It’s not easy to do important things.

It’s easy to say it’s too hard.
It’s worth it to do what’s not easy.