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Ask HN: What Are Hard Things?
There’s a post at the op of the first page called “How to do hard things.” It made me wonder, “What do HN folks consider hard?” Any answers are viable based on your fame of reference in the space-time continuum.
- auslegung 7y agoGetting enough sleep while raising two toddlers. I’m not being cute here. Everything else in my life has suffered because my sleep is worse. At this point I’m considering lowering my personal expectations until one of them is in school, rather than struggle and fight only to feel like I’m not consistently doing the things I need to do.
- h2odragon 7y ago> lowering my personal expectations Yes. raising one toddler was harder than I expected, two is not simple addition. Like kittens. It's an exponent. Figure when the youngest hits 10 you may be able to have a life of your own. By that time your goals may have changed. The sleep thing does get better eventually but then everything else happens. There's other opinions and I say nothing against them; but i will repeat what others have said: It's worth the time. Raising another human being truly is one of the most rewarding things one can do.
- dorkusmagnus 7y agoNot easy things.