random thinking
While a lot has happened this past week while I was on vacation, I’d rather take a few minutes and discuss this bit of randomness:
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created. - Albert Einstein
I bring this up because of situations I’ve been through and am going through at the moment. Not to belabor the point, but obviously Einstein was a smart guy. Too bad he was never publicized for saying this: It’s easier to avoid getting into a problem than it is to solve one once you’re in it. Which is really just another way to express the cliche, ‘An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.’
I guess this really goes along with an earlier post I made, where I talked about there being an easier way of learning other than trial and error, or other people’s trial and error. If I have learned one thing in this life, it’s this: don’t go into debt unless you absolutely have to. For the second time in my life I find myself in less than stellar condition financially, only this time I don’t see a way out in the near future, other than to just suck it up and pay all the debt off. I don’t like that option personally, since not all the debt I’m responsible for is truly mine, but I may be stuck anyway, I’m thinking it best to just start paying it off, rip the bandage off and just grit my teeth through the pain of it and get it over with, as I’m just prolonging a bad situation with things being the way they are.
Maybe the most fundamental things in life are also the simplest. It’s not that hard to make money and live decently. Boiled down to its fundamental components, life is not that difficult, it’s just our culture has made it that way, for better or worse, and I’m thinking worse myself. But, as Einstein said, the problem won’t be solved at this level of thinking. It requires a goal to work towards, not a vision to move away from. By holding a vision of things we don’t want, we bring those very things into being, or fix them into our reality. If we are really going to fix our problems, and this applies to me too, it requires a new way of thinking and acting. It’s a very simple idea. And very difficult to do.