Eddie Pinero

Because as we all know, when you're in it, it's easy to see the occurrence in a vacuum, to disassociate the pain with the result, right?

Sometimes you even forget why you're doing it.

Why put yourself through something when, I don't know, the rest of the world is at home watching the game or having a beer?

And what he did making that statement was put what's important front and center.

And it's like, oh, Eddie, you can have all those things, all of them, but this is the cost, your call.

Now that suffering takes on somewhat of a different shape, but it hurts.

Well, of course it does.

That's why very few people have the thing you want.

That's why it's rare.

That's why it means something.

You know, some things are so simple that we have to step up a level beyond the excuses and the minutia and the detail to understand.

Desired result, price tag for that result.

Simple.

This came to mind as I was thinking about this.

Have you ever tried to open a beer bottle or a glass bottle of Coke and, you know, you use anything using a bottle opener, right?

And you're like, man, this is putting up a fight.

And someone laughs and tells you it's a twist off.

That's what rationalizing discomfort is.

It's like, well, I don't really have to, or maybe, you know, if I stop for a few minutes, or I don't even know if this is the right decision, and, you know, all the stories and nonsense you tell yourself, when in reality, it's like, if you want the thing, this is what it costs.

If you want what's inside the bottle, stop creating all these unnecessary mechanisms to open it and twist the damn thing off.