Just Do It

some days, it might even be enough

There is a phrase I loathe with a deep, visceral loathing, and it is “you just have to…” Invariably it is followed by some sort of directive.

I abhor its smug certainty. The assumption that the thing standing between you and whatever the goal might be is something so simple and easy and self-evident that one would have to be either an idiot, an incom…