Things that Should Be More Difficult to Do
- misplace the smartphone upon which we have become so dependent… in your own house
- have your soul sucked out (through every pore) with reality television marathons
- experience seemingly justifiable road rage
- find a glass of exceedingly average and spectacularly overpriced wine in an otherwise decent place to drink it
- making movies or television shows… if your name is Tyler Perry
- getting acting gigs… if your name is David Caruso
- writing books… if your name is Terry McMillian
- make an argument about the sanctity of marriage in the age of Brittany Spears
- getting parking tickets in DC
- conflate being famous with being infamous
- stop chasing dreams, believing in magic, hearing the bells
- move through an entire day without appreciating art
- allow the arbitrary, the random, or the capricious keep one away from something or someone we love
- listen to our lesser demons instead of our better angels
Things that should be easier
- defending DC from all of the haters
- getting a great education without mortgaging the first two decades of adulthood & your soul to an evil-corporate-overlord
- understanding the customs and morays of social media
- finding good and relatively inexpensive Italian food in DC (yes, that is one giant, gaping hole in the DC culinary landscape… if any of you mention Pasta Mia, you’re no longer welcome to my Scotch)
- finding good contemporary music
- aging gracefully
- reducing our carbon footprint
- getting more disciplined as we get older
- make a decent living as an artist
- fully appreciating the Thomas Payne quote: That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly”
Hat Tip to Sarah and the Goon Squad for the idea for this post
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