It’s All Downhill

Going down is a lot faster and easier than going up.

Imagine the case of someone managing an exceptional team of workers, all of them striving towards a collectively held goal; imagine them hardworking, brilliant, creative, and unified. But the manager is also responsible for someone troubled, who is performing poorly, elsewhere. In a fit of inspiration, the well-meaning manager moves that problematic person into the midst of his stellar team, hoping to improve him by example.

What happens? Like a virus in your blood stream amongst white blood cells, the entire team either degenerates.

The same thing happens when well-meaning councilors place a delinquent teen among comparatively civilized peers. The delinquency spreads, not the stability. Vices are easy, Failure is easy. It’s easier not to think, and not to do, and not to care. It’s easier to put off until tomorrow what needs to be done today, and drown the upcoming months and years in today’s cheap pleasures.

Imagine that you're unhappy. You're not getting what you need. Perversely, this may be because of what you want. You're blind, because of what you desire. Perhaps what you really need is right in front of your eyes, but you cannot see it because of what you are currently aiming for… But sometimes their time has come, and new things need to be born. For this reason it is necessary to let things go during the journey uphill. If your life is not going well, perhaps it is your current knowledge that is insufficient, not life itself. Perhaps your value structure needs some serious retooling.”

-Busy Brian