Saumya Saxena
@saxenasaheb
Dropped my parents off at the Bangalore airport this morning and drove back in silence. They offered to take a cab. The airport is over an hour away. A 2.5-hour round trip, easy. I laughed because I’ve seen them do this their whole life. For us. For family. For friends. 4:30 am train for a distant cousin? Dad would be up at 3:30 to drop. Mom would be packing paranthas like it was a ritual. No Uber. No Swiggy. No complaints. That extra effort was how they showed love. And because of that, every visit felt like an event. Every send-off mattered. There was connection in the inconvenience. Today, convenience wins. We book an Uber instead of picking someone up. We order food instead of cooking. We send gifts from Amazon instead of scouting something personal. It’s all easier. But we’re less in it. Less present. Less connected. That’s the problem with the “much easier” life. Effort is what forges meaning. And high-effort people? They’re impossible to ignore in everything they do. *** Here’s them with their grandson in Kandy. Generations apart. Same energy.
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Asal
@asal9
Genuinely couldn't relate/agree more. It's crazy how our life is changing towards more so-called "convenience" and doing things effortlessly has got so overrated. While in fact our brains are made to put effort, even suffer to degrees consciously for a higher value to feel real satisfaction. "Easier" world is not always a happier world and lacks "love" sometimes. I always drive/pick up my friends and family as much as I can and I totally get that feeling. We need to show love in these ways, to give all this life the lovely meaning it has.
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