Some Things Should be Easy

Stop Demanding We Romanticize Struggle

Kitanya Harrison

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Photo by Attentie Attentie on Unsplash

Struggle is necessary to change ourselves and to change the world. It’s not inherently ennobling or virtuous, though. Not everything worthwhile should be hard-won. Some things should be easy.

Struggle happens against an obstacle. In many cases, that obstacle was erected deliberately. That wall you’re chipping away at with a…

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Kitanya Harrison

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