When a friend first pitches the idea of going on ‘nature walks’ on weekends, “oohs” and “aahs” follow. Everyone is interested. Everyone wants to do it. “Such a romantic idea,” “an opportunity to smell the roses” are the sorts of comments that follow.
Then he follows up with next steps/the reality. Wake up at 6am on a Saturday morning and then walk for 4 hours. Suddenly, everyone has an excuse. The romance seems to wear out pretty darn quick.
Everyone stumbles onto the truth – it’s all romance only in theory. In reality, romance is hard work and we have to explicitly choose to do it. Why take that detour to buy flowers for your wife/girlfriend when you can just show up? Why spend all those months learning the piano when you can laze around watch TV? Why go out of the way to treat a customer/client extra special when you can lean back on the default option?
The beauty of this is that once you put in the hard work, the results are..well..romantic.
Try asking the lady who unexpectedly received flowers..
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