^^^ This.
It took me all of my 62 years to realize this simple fact.
Every job market I’ve been to makes finding a job simple. Send out resumes, go on interviews, and get a job.
It’s definitely not easy.
Simple but not easy - Climbing a tree.
Easy but not simple - Writing a letter.
Making edible gravy.
Making proper hashbrown potatoes.
Easy but not simple? That’d be your mom.
Changing a tire.
My job basically boils down to simple repetition. However, keeping up that repetition for 12 hours is NOT easy.
After decades of dieting (and not eating while I was hungry) and binging (and eating while I was not hungry) the idea of eating what I wanted when I was hungry was simple, but not easy. The first three months were hell.
The idea of talking an hour long walk outside every day was easy, but not simple. What do I wear? Do I need a warmer jacket? What about an umbrella? Do I walk now or after work? Do I take this route or that one, or maybe in the park. Should I get a soda or some coffee?
Definitely losing weight.
I work for a Medicare contractor. My job is repetitive completion of paperwork. Same forms, different states and different regulations per state.
It is simple to fill out the forms, but not easy to avoid going into auto pilot and just droning on and on and on with the computer mouse.
Simple but not easy: lifting heavy objects.
Easy but not simple: existing as the complex organisms we are. Being human.
Easy, but not simple: Writing software. It’s just typing, maybe clicking, and thinking. It is, however, quite a lot of specialized thinking, often under time pressure.
Simple, but not easy: Running a marathon. Run. Keep running. Run until you want to collapse. Don’t collapse, but instead keep running. Then continue to run a long time after that.
Tapping in a 30 foot putt is simple, but not easy.
Pitching softball is simple, but not easy.
Driving an old car, with a manual choke, no power steering, so, big steering wheel, and manual transmission on the column is not simple, but it becomes easy very quickly.
Baking bread from scratch is easy, but not simple.
Reading is not simple, but is surprisingly easy to learn at the right developmental stage (barring disabilities), because our brains seem to be programmed to do so. In fact, if you have ever worked in a classroom with children who come in at the beginning or the year knowing the alphabet song, but nothing more, and go out nine months later able to read picture books, it’s fricking amazing.
Human language - as opposed to communication as shared by many other life forms - is incredibly complex and poorly understood, but it seems the easiest thing ever.
Simple, but not easy: correctly plugging in a USB the first time.
Easy, but not simple: single vs. plural possessives.
Playing the theremin.
Five seconds to learn the principle, whole life to practice.
>His mom is in a coma.<
Once you learn to walk, walking 30 miles is simple, but not easy.
Digging a ten-foot-deep hole using only a shovel.