Is excessive convenience tormenting? – Daily Words

Convenience is not the villain. A culture built entirely upon it might be – one that leaves us comfortable, unpractised and strangely anxious.

11. Is excessive convenience tormenting?

It’s time, we look into long-term effects of excessive convenience in our lives. Convenience isn’t bad, but that a culture of excessive convenience can be lethal, developing idleness as in the loss of meaning in putting efforts, skill-building, and a sense of accomplishment. Achievements minus small struggles keep us emotionally undernourished. Paradoxically, a life designed for ease adds to anxiety. A constant pursuit of more, our expectation of immediacy and resulting low tolerance for discomfort leave us stressed n overwhelmed. The search for convenience has provided us with life-saving medical innovations to different technologies, but it mustn’t afflict our privacy, the sense of purpose, self-reliance; along with physical and mental well-being.

Take of the day – “You were not built for comfort and convenience. You were built to overcome.” – Cory Booker