I wonder why we take the path of least resistance?  I find I take said path all the time, in different areas of my life.  Is it that we have a natural aversion to conflicts, challenges, or resistance?  What is it about a challenge that makes one decide that a quicker solution, maybe a less effective one or a temporary one is more appealing than hunkering down and just tackling the problem?

Somewhat recently, I had a conversation about “Padded Booty Enhancing Shorts”.  You can laugh all you want, I am using the name the advertisers chose; I relay verbatim, hence the quotation marks.  Additionally, people do talk about such things, I know because I was roped into said conversation.  In this conversation, the person wanted to enhance their butt.  The thing about this conversation is that it has occurred before with the same individual, it prompted the thought that this individual thinks of their perceived issue often enough to have this conversation twice with me.  I will note a curious, but the unknown factor is how many other times has this conversation occurred with others?  One could even offer the statement that the individual is obsessing over the perceived butt issue.

The first time we had this conversation, in my effort to offer a reasonable alternative, I researched “natural butt enhancement” and a plethora of videos on squats came up in my search.  After watching a handful of the videos, I found one that explained the physical/medical cause of a less prominent posterior.  The creator of the video is a health professional, and they offered exercises to resolve the perceived problem.  Feeling helpful I forwarded the video to the individual.  

Well, here we are a few months later and we are repeating the same conversation.  This individual has self-image issues like a great many of us do.  However, the solution that comes to their mind is not one of changing the actual root of the issue, but rather the superficial aspect of the issue.  I again offered the exercise as a better solution than the butt shorts, I think this time I even threw in the idea of self-acceptance. Nonetheless, my mind understands the individual wanting to find the instant solution I do it also.  Which is what prompted the thought, why do we take the path of least resistance?  

If they had started doing the squats with the same obsession they have for the butt itself, back when we initially had this conversation, they would have already reached their goal.  As I stated before, I relate, there are things I want to change, and if I just applied that genuine want to the solution as much as I do to the goal, I would accomplish it. Do you have a similar goal or want in your life?  How do you reach them?  Or do you also choose the path of least resistance?