Breaking is easier than building.
Following is easier than leading.
Believing is easier than understanding.
It’s not that we want to call anyone lazy, but there are certain leanings that are definitely the easier path, and the more comfortable choice to be made. It’s easy to shout and stomp your feet that something isn’t working, but finding a solution that works for the most people is the hard choice. It’s easy to tag along with a bit of so-called common sense, but trying to understand if that kind of advice is more common than sense takes work.
Conviction isn’t hard. It’s merely stable… in the same way that a rock has conviction to never move no matter where it happened to tumble and block the path.
Buying into a political position that has trickled down through your family or just neatly aligns with the people you happen to hang out with? That isn’t brave, or bold nor does it make you anything but a rock.
It’s comfortable. It’s low effort. It’s surrender. And it’s a waste of your voice.