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Path of least resistance
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
Aristotle
I had a talk with a friend recently that was on the topic of moving on after a rough breakup.
Although he was in good spirit during the conversation, I could tell there was emotional pain.
“At this point I’ll just hit up a booty call.” he utters.
Life is about choices — and the actions that follow those choices.
He had the urge to make the choice of suppressing his problems with a quick dopamine fix. These fixes come in many forms.
Cocaine, pornography, alcohol, video games — all are band-aids to problems that require more than a quick fix.
If life presents two choices, one easy choice and the other a hard choice.
The easier choice is usually not the best choice to make.