Do You Want to Pay Now or Pay Later? by Pennie Hunt

​When you are in the time of life when you are working a job, you probably look forward to having enough money saved to retire. You believe if you work hard now, you will enjoy years of relaxation during retirement. Life will be easy.

Conversely, if you spend most of your life believing that you don’t need to save money or prepare for retirement, life may be easy for you now, but retirement may be less than relaxing. Life will be hard.

Life works both ways. Life can either be easy now and hard later or hard now and easy later. This concept plays out in many ways during many circumstances.

College can be a fun and exciting time. It is easy to enjoy all the social activities, skip classes, and not be dedicated to studying. This kind of college lifestyle may lead to failing exams, failing classes, and failing college. Easy now, hard later.

Attending class regularly and missing a few social activities so you can study is hard. But, when you put the effort in, passing the exam, passing the class and graduating becomes easy. Hard now, easy later.

Making time to exercise, committing to a workout routine, and sticking to it for a lifetime is hard. When you are in the middle of a 10-mile run it is hard. Once you have done this for years your stamina and fitness level will be worth the hard work. Movement and flexibility will be easier as you age. Hard now, easy later.

If you never take time to commit to exercise the aging process will be hard. Easy now, hard later.

Eating fast food every night on your way home from work may save you time, be convenient, and be easy now. But what will the ramifications be on your body in the years to come? The health issues may create a hard life later.

Life is either easy now and hard later, or hard now and easy later. It is your choice which path you believe is right for you. Do you want to pay now or pay later? This takes some intentional thinking. Is the immediate gratification of fun, avoidance, or slacking worth the consequences it will bring in the future? Are you willing to pay the future price for your earlier actions?  

None of us do the right thing every time. We all make mistakes in life. We all fail occasionally. These missteps are hard. If we continue to make them over and over life can be really hard. This can create a situation of hard now AND hard later.

But if we learn from failure or mistakes, it can make our lives easier in the future. We learn how to live better, be better, and do better. Hard now, easy later.  

The next time you think you are too tired to work out, you don’t want to do the work to pass the test, or driving through to pick up fast food seems appealing, think about this concept. Will this action make your life easy now and hard later, or hard now and easy later? It is your choice to decide which path you believe is right for you.
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                                                     Pennie’s Life Lesson:
                                        Life is either easy now and hard later,
                                                  or hard now and easy later.
                                                      The choice is yours.   
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