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How Looking For Shortcuts Only Made My Life Harder, I Bet You Can Relate
I have a younger sister who I would spend hours sitting beside as she watched her favourite tv shows before and after school.
We would sit there and I would laugh with her at her joy of seeing the protagonist succeed at their mission after coming up to what would seem to her as an insurmountable task to only then triumph and the sense of achievement and glory that followed.
One of her favourites was a cartoon of ‘Lazy Lucy’ a fictional tale of a young girl who would try endlessly to find effortless shortcuts to chores from her parents or tasks from her teachers.
Lucy would spend her whole day collecting tools, drawing designs, enlisting the help of friends to complete the task.
She would even go o extraordinary lengths like trying numerous ways of designing rudimentary machinery to automate the chores.
She would try and fail, try and fail, over and over until more often than not she had to resort to completing the task in the fashion that she was trying to originally avoid.
The Task: taking clothes of the line
Now this might seem like something that we as adults do everyday. Taking clothes off the line is easy. It is probably one of the tasks that you do as a…
