the simple option

perhaps it’s just me, but it occurred to me the other day that i might somehow miss the obvious, simple option and over complicate things.

you see, i recently moved to the northern beaches in sydney, an area i’ve wanted to explore for a very long time.  all in the dream of getting better at surfing.  there’s no question that they are beautiful beaches that line the north coast of sydney.  however, there are parking meters all along these lovely beaches and with the amalgamation of the councils, a northern beaches beach pass is needed to avoid these meters…. only available to council payers, not renters.

here i was, asking around friends who own places in the northern beaches to see if they are any spare passes.  i would regularly look on gumtree to see if they were any cheap sales of owners selling their passes.  and i totally missed the obvious option of asking my real estate agent whether the landlord would perhaps give me their pass.  it was only until i had gone to my local council to see if there was a way i could buy a pass from them that they suggested this “obvious” option.

how many times do we miss the obvious, simple option that’s staring right in front of me and instead “waste” energy doing the complicated?  i know it sounds crazy, but have there ever been days where you know what the first simple thing to do is, but refuse to do that, and then instead go ahead and do something else?  please note – i’m *not* saying the simple thing is the easy thing to do, it sometimes is, but in my head i often procrastinate, thinking the obvious thing to do way is more complicated than it is in reality.

well, no more of that.  with this distinction in mind, here’s to the simple life!

xo