To be or not to be: the choice we face every day
I once shared this with a small circle of friends and received positive response. Hence, here’s for a wider audience.
Around late-July last year, I found it hard to stay awake in the morning. I thought I needed to do something to make me feel more energetic. I tried to get up early, around 5:50, took a brisk morning walk or jogged before heading for office. As the result of this exercise, my morning yawning decreased and I started feeling my strength coming back.
From that time on, I make a point of having this morning exercise. To be sure, it is not without struggle, especially when the days got shorter last autumn. Every morning when the alarm yells and I am still very sleepy, I ask myself: shall I get up or skip this morning. When I am outside, I face another one: walk or run. I know I can find thousands of excuses for myself if I decide not to get up or not to run.
I notice throughout the day, I am constantly facing such choice, one being easy, the other being difficult. It is so easy to give in to the natural tendency of taking the easy one and to stay in our comfort zone. In the long run, throughout our lives, the choices we constantly make define us and determine our fate.
I have also found, once I am on the run, it is a lot easy to keep on running than stopping for a second and then resuming it. My daughter told me it was called inertia. But why is it that while I am running, I don’t find it hard to stop, that is, there is no inertia to keep me running? In fact, I always welcome the idea of stopping. It seems inertia works only one-way. She said you encountered resistance only when you move forward or move from rest to action or from an easy stage to a difficult one.
Once again, I see our natural tendency to follow the inertia to slip into an easy stage of existence, whenever there is a chance, just as water flows downward naturally and effortlessly. Without making efforts and trying our best, there is no hoping of going upward socially and economically or reaching to a high level of existence. Without exception, it takes genuine efforts to reverse the inertia or our natural downward movement.
Finally, it is better to keep the momentum if you don’t want to encounter inertia and make an extra effort to conquer it. No wonder people say it is better to get all the degrees you want in one breath instead of taking a few years off.
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