If you were to master difficult, you would be able to overcome it, meaning it would not be difficult anymore and as a result, would lose its essence, hence making it an impossibility to master difficult. Difficult has been contained by humanity as a relative, and abstract term used to describe the opposite of something favorable or easy, providing a dichotomy. Difficult has to exist in order for easy to exist, just like good and evil, light and dark, ying and yang. Similarly, what's difficult for one, is not for another so really, there is no way to saddle down difficult, as it remains an anomaly of subjectivity that is not definitive in its beingness or form.

When a task is difficult, it does not become easy, however a person may interpret it as such because they have learned better coping skills or a way to hone in on a solution. This means they have mastered or adapted themselves to a task or emotion, but difficult remains itself. Difficult is fleeting and can't be contained, as it isn't a human construct or even an adjective, really. It is a state of beingness and therefore, remains true to itself, but widely misinterpreted and misused as a description of how something is. For example, I tried to open a jar of spaghetti sauce to no avail.

When I asked my boyfriend to open it, he did so without trouble, so was it actually difficult to open the jar? Who's to say? If I say it is and he says it isn't, then it's his word against mine and there is no truth, there is only opinion. It's impossible to master something that is subjective because there is no objective truth and because you cannot actually change the state of an abstraction, you can only adapt to it and try to understand it as a concept. After all, mastering difficult would make it easy, which would strip the essence of difficult and easy, as easy would only become a result of difficult rather than a state of being of its own and difficult would become obsolete altogether. Therefore, difficult can never be mastered.

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