What if there is no magic pill?

"Waiting around will get you nowhere". We have all heard this statement and sometimes waiting can be a really good idea. Yes, if you want to take control of something in your life sometimes you just have to do it, but sometimes the best course of action is to wait. You just don't want to step back and just wait for something to happen. You want to step back and ask yourself, is this something I need in my life right now? Is this something I even want to take on right now?

With our easy push button society we live in, the art of slowing down the process of decision making has gone out the window in a lot of cases. We want everything easy and faster no matter the possible end results that we did not think about. We do this even though we all know that if something is really worth it, we must do the work to make it happen. We must slow the instant gratification syndrome down and go out and earn it.... It's hard and I know it because we all live in it everyday.

When you take the time to look back on your life I guarantee, everything that has the most meaning in your life just didn't happen overnight. You set out to earn these things or ideas. Along the way you had successes and failures. You had obstacles to overcome and you turned those obstacles and failures into opportunities. You ended up learning the most through your failures and not much through your successes.

The reason I am writing about this today is because I see this attitude of not wanting to have to do the work required to really earn something around us everywhere. I see so many people wanting the magic pill, well there is no magic pill. There is only consequences for taking the magic pill. Life is not always supposed to be easy. Having difficulties and dealing with hard times is how we learn to live life. It teaches us how to enjoy our successes and the successes of those around us. These lessons seem to be getting lost in all the clutter that surrounds us every day. I hope that we will never stop learning these lessons and that we will constantly and lovingly keep passing them on.