Why Is It So Hard to Build, Yet So Easy to Destroy?

Introduction

Some days ago, a house close to my place was bought by a new owner. Since the new owner wanted a different structure there, he destroyed the old one. I watched as they demolished a house that took months to build, in a single day like a house of cards.

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At that moment, I asked myself a question, “Why is it so easy to destroy and hard to build”?

Sometimes, life can be so funny. Years are spent building careers, forming a good habit, building trust and in a matter of seconds or just one little mistake every comes crashing down. Similar to that of a sand castle that gets washed away by sea wave in matter of seconds.

Check out how easy it is to pick up bad habits.

Skip the gym once, and suddenly, it’s been months. Just say you want to spend recklessly in just a week and see your live savings disappear at the twinkling of an eye. But try forming a good habit, like reading your books consistently, waking up early, visiting the gym regularly and it feels like fighting, world war Z.

Why?

Because it takes a lot of effort to grow but when it comes to destruction, it is instant and effortlessly. Let’s use marriage as an example. Over the years, you see couple building there marriages on love, trust, loyalty and honesty but just one small cheating on your spouse, decades of marriage is destroyed. Even when you try to fix the pieces together, the cracks still remains.

Same thing applies to a successful business man or woman. A lot of sacrifices, commitment and discipline has been put to keep them among the high and mighty but just one wrong investment, you become broke like T-pain who loosed over $40 million on poor investments.

I think the world is just built this way, maybe to make good stuff look valuable. Imagine if stuffs like trust, commitment, success, came so easy, we might not appreciate it. just thinking aloud! Lol

So what do we do?

That’s simple, we should learn to protect what we have built by been intentional and always have it at the back of our mind that to get the best things of life takes time and that’s what make it worth the chase. Like I pointed out earlier, it’s always easier to destroy but the things that last are built by those who are hardworking and go the extra mile to get what they want.

Let me end it on this note by asking, what are you building today??