One Thing I Believe

These "I believe" posts have been floating around in my head for the past few weeks, and I haven't really been able to identify anything worth saying, but today, this thought popped in there:

I believe that if things aren't hard, I'm not doing it right.

What?

If it's not challenging, I'm not pushing myself far enough.
If it's easy, I must be taking the lazy route.

It's something I'm learning about myself. Not that I'm some go-getter or super star, but more like I make things difficult for myself. I choose the path of most resistance and I don't know why. It's not useful, but I can't shake the idea that making a scene about how hard I'm trying, people won't know that I'm doing anything worthwhile with my time.

I have a hard time seeing a more even-tread way of doing something, and I have a hard time accepting that just because something is simple, doesn't mean its not worth doing. And when something seems simple, sometimes that's because it actually IS simple, and not because the world is playing a trick on me.