To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith.

This is a quote by W.H. Auden. I don't know very much about him, except that he was a poet. Seems to me he was rather brilliant to have articulated such a common human struggle so well.

Everytime I read this, I think about the situations in my life that I haven't dealt with properly. Or, the situations that I am currently dealing with improperly.

It's sort of my new standard.

By asking myself if I am doing the right thing or the easy thing, I can identify where I've gone astray. Sometimes the damage is done, but other times, I realize just in time.