“**Convenience culture seduces us into imagining that we might find room for everything important by eliminating only life’s tedious tasks. But it’s a lie**. “**You have to choose a few things, sacrifice everything else, and deal with the inevitable sense of loss that results**. Keesmaat chose building fires and growing food with her children. “How else are we to get to know this place where we have been set, apart from tending to it?” she writes. “Outside of planting the food we eat, how are we to learn the living character of soil, the various needs of peppers, lettuce, and kale?” **You might make a very different choice, of course. But the undodgeable reality of a finite human life is that you are going to have to choose**.“ --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[convenience-culture]], [[personal-values]], [[discipline]], [[self-control]], [[resilience]] **Source** -- [[202410130434 - B - Four Thousand Weeks]] **See Also** — [[20241014130900 - AtN - Consider the potential of friction as a feature]]