A life well-lived is not an easy task.

I had a horrible realization today. I am writing it down so as not to ignore it.
I was alone in my dorm and I decided I would like some human interaction. I thought about walking to my friend Grace's room but there was someone else in her room, and to put it nicely, I didn't want to be in a room with that person. "Why?" I asked myself. Well, because it would take more effort, more patience, more work on my part to be a nice human being.
And, I was shying away from that opportunity, an opportunity to develop as a person and to be challenged by the diversity of human beings.
It is easier to be unkind to people.
It is harder, much harder, to appreciate each of them as they are, no matter how it makes you feel. People are the way they for a reason. And our liking it, or not liking it, does not mean they are any less of a human being than we are.