Easy to be Heavy, Hard to be Light

Easy to be Heavy, Hardy to be light

This is a quote by G.K. Chesterton as cited in Gretchen Rubin's The Happiness Project. As I've alluded to before this is one of my current resolutions:: to be more light-hearted in the Denver Public School environment.
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It's easy to be angry and
it's hard to have hope
it's natural to feel burn-out
it's hard to not take their anger personally
it's easy to give up
it's hard to remain stable
it's easy to make war
it's hard to keep peace
it's easy to gossip
and hard to let go
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Students (girls) often approach me complaining to me about so-and-so and how she's not their friend anymore because of such-and-such and how she's being rude. And I've started telling the girls - It's easy to hate and hard to be nice.