Ease

Word of the year is ease.

I say this as I’m struggling to write my first blog. Nonetheless, I have decided, and so it is. Ease.

Why is it so difficult? I’m coming to learn that the best things in life happen with ease, yet it’s still hard to accept.

Easy.

It’s almost a dirty word. These are thoughts we’ve all had about ourselves and others. The necessity to feel a struggle leading to a success. A storm before the rainbow. A growing pain. Not that growing pains aren’t a totally real and significant part of life. There’s substance to every form of the human experience and every emotion were put on this Earth to undergo. But why such a pedestal for the uncomfortable ones?

There comes a sense of superiority with having had a harder, more stressful, more exhausting, more heart, mind, and soul crushing time reaching success than the next person. I am more than guilty of convincing myself of this.

“Ahh but, I survived where others didn’t, or wouldn’t have”

Ease. A dirty word.

We have all been a part of, or witnessed, the competition to win the “I had it worse than you” game. No doubt, struggle pain and difficulty are more prevalent to some than others. Trust me I know, I bet I’ve had it worse than you. Therefore, Ill nosedive first into..

Ease. So hard to accept. So difficult to learn.

So how can ease even be ease? There’s nothing easy about it! There lies your humble brag. It isn’t easy allowing yourself to give into receiving all that you want and deserve without a struggle.

 But you will, and I will. Though I must warn you now, it won’t be easy.