Saturday, March 4, 2017

Be Easy..

My best friend (who unfortunately killed himself a year ago) used to say "Be easy" all the time. I can't hear, see or think that statement without picturing my best friend's big, loving grin stretching from ear to ear. Yet, I don't know exactly what that saying means, so I looked up the word "easy" to try to make some sense of it.

By definition, "easy" means:

1. achieved without great effort; presenting few difficulties.
2. (of a period of time or way of life) free from worries or problems.
So telling someone to stay easy is a shorthand way of telling them to stay achieving without great effort and without getting in their own way. When someone keeps their mind free from worries or problems by appreciating the very things that they have in the here and now, it becomes much easier to achieve a sense of happiness without great effort, even when life presents them with unexpected challenges and difficulties.