I didn’t pay a lot of attention in high school chemistry,
Maybe a little more in physics…
But, I don’t remember much.
I do remember,
“Nature follows the path of least resistance”…
That stuck with me. It felt like an absolute truth, before I realized that I was seeking absolute truths.
So often in engineering I was reminded of that truth…
When people cut across paved paths creating a shorter route to their destination,
“Nature follows the path of least resistance.”
When a river overflows and floods the homes …
When electric circuits short circuit…
So often I watch nature follow the path of least resistance, and again, I think about human beings…
What is our path of least resistance?
WISHING is our path of least resistance! Disharmony is our path of least resistance…
Because it requires no accountability.
It simply allows us to “WISH” for a different reality without any required effort.
When we WISH we had studied more.
When we WISH our loved one showed up differently.
When we WISH our employees did things the way we want them to…
It requires no effort – least resistance – just pulls in our desire – and ties it into the past or the future without any accountability or effort.
HARMONY requires effort… it requires the courage to embrace the IS, the gratitude to appreciate the IS, the honesty to accept the IS…
And, then it requires accountability to take responsibility for the IS, and the initiative to take action for the WANT.
It is easier to expect others to change.
It is harder to change ourselves – and to possibly inspire others to grow as a result.
It is harder to consider other people’s points of view.
It is harder to motivate yourself to action over and over again…
But it is also a scientific fact that resistance is how we grow… it’s how we build muscle… it’s how we remember… it’s how we learn and evolve…
It’s easier to turn to drugs and alcohol to find your high…
It’s harder to find the high in our daily life – and WORK to create it…
Nature does follow the path of least resistance and that is why as we become more civilized and the world becomes an “easier” place to navigate – we find a greater kind of human disharmony – or at least a lack of progress where there should be great progress made…
Now that so much is easier… now that so much technology gives us so much wisdom, knowledge, access... health…
It SHOULD be easier to find harmony – and yet we find so often a world full of disharmony…
What do you think?
Is harmony or disharmony the path of least resistance?
Does your answer change in the short term and the long term?
Think about it…
But resistance builds structure – resistance builds deliberate structures… that make the world a better place…
It is not nature – but man that has channeled the forces of energy to construct a greater existence…
It is resistance that has allowed us to evolve as human beings…
It is resistance that is required for LIGHT…
It is resistance and DELIBERATENESS that is required for harmony…
The BEST path forward is very rarely the easiest one...
Be careful of the paths of least resistance…
They provide short term relief and satisfaction at the high cost of self growth, development, fulfillment…
Joy
AND HARMONY,
Nestor