Perceptions of Difficulty

Many elements of life are difficult: time, responsibility, finance, family, health, so on, and so forth. Still the question I must ask is how much am I increasing the difficulty? Possibly through narrow perspectives and flaws I have yet to give up. Immaturity or plain, old, bad habits like complaining.  

For example, when I must do something new my perception of its ease is strictly opinion. I have no evidence backing my claim. After I have done it once. I will have more experience. Even if it is extremely difficult. It will be a bit easier because it is not my literal first time experiencing its process. What then, is the benefit of perceiving so many things in life as difficult? Why would I go out of my way, use finite resources like time and energy to label things without truly knowing?  Even if they are, it changes essentially nothing. If you have no choice but endure a tragedy or true misfortune that is one thing. 

Yet, if you voluntarily do something then realize how difficult it is, it was still your choice. Why must we assess the difficulty of everything we do prematurely with our opinions? Is it to theorize what we are up against or to create a built in excuse if we fail? Opinions are the color we decide to paint things. But does the world have to be redone to our liking? Or can we accept things for what they are, experience them presently and move onto the next moment?   

Opinions are overvalued and overexpressed. Yet we engage, direct our lives and proclaim others to be wiser than us because of them. Is it possible to have no opinions about anything? No, probably not. Still maybe we can separate from them more often. Not make so many decisions based on them. We can see opinions more similar to how we see emotions than facts. Self awareness trumps emotion. So what can defeat opinions? Acceptance, experience, maybe silence.  

— Angel Is