Why Easy Comes at a Cost

 Why Easy Comes at a Cost

When someone makes your life easy, without realising it, they are also making you lazy. What comes easily sometimes comes with a cost—whether direct or indirect. But remember, when something is made easy, there is always something we lose in return.

For example, it is convenient to order food through an app, but that meal comes with an extra cost, and in the long run, it adds extra fat around your waist.

There are also instances where easy success does not last. The world has seen businesses that experienced early success but eventually shut down. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Mr. Kabir Mulchandani built the Akai brand in India by offering huge discounts. While it was attractive and brought him early success, his shortcut did not last. He became entangled in many legal cases and was a prominent news figure in 2000—but later, for all the wrong reasons. Success without ethics is like a bright light in the sky—it may seem attractive, but it can also be destructive, much like the bomb that fell on Japan.

Easiness should be sought, but not at the cost of making us lazy, unethical, or stifling our ability to strengthen ourselves and overcome our weaknesses.

The world has witnessed people who walked the hard path—steady, persistent, and willing to fall and rise again. We have a choice: we can either be inspired by them, or we can be carried away by those who take shortcuts. In the end, we must bear the consequences of our choices.

If the lightbulb had been invented in one go, I wonder whether Einstein would have learned so many lessons about falling and rising. Indeed, those life lessons helped him invent even more. According to the world, Einstein invented the bulb—but I believe he actually invented the inventor within himself.

M.L.Narendra Kumar