Talk radio has always interested me. I catch a program here and there while driving. Yesterday, I tuned in to the Dennis Prager show (I quite like him. For starters, his white hair is awesome. He’s very morally based, highly intelligent, and, in my humble opinion, spot on every single time).
During his program, he posed an interesting question, one about which I don’t know that I’ve ever really considered – or at least not in the way he asked it.
“Are you easy?” he queried.
Easy to live with? Easy to talk to? Easy to be married to? Easy to engage with? Do people leave an encounter with you feeling like it was a good use of their time? Did time with you leave a person feeling drained or refreshed? In other words, were you easy?
Are you easy?
Gulp.
I love this self-introspective question! It begs an honest answer, and I love that it does. As for myself, I couldn’t answer “yes” resolutely – across the board. But I’d like to work on this and in time, be easy.
A quick online definition of “easy” revealed four actually, each one extremely insightful as it relates to the question, “Are you easy?”
Here are the definitions:
- achieved without great effort, presenting few difficulties
- of a period of time or way of life, free from worries or problems
- lacking anxiety or awkwardness; relaxed
- having no defense, vulnerable (Online Dictionary: Definition of easy)
Telling indeed!
Do I present with “few difficulties” or “free from worries or problems,” especially when conversing with another person? Is my focus on him/her, no matter what’s happening in my own space? And am I unapologetically relaxed? No awkwardness, no unease, no nervousness – only my presence in the present moment at hand. Totally vulnerable! Needing no defense, because there was no wrongdoing.
Just…easy.
Definitely something about which to think and for me, something on which to work.
Unto all the world: Are you easy?