It dawned on me last night that with all these years gone by, I still hadn't learned that growing up was all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. I get hurt. I recover. I move on. Odds are I will get hurt again. But each time I will manage to learn something...or ideally come out of it a little stronger.
Realization strikes. There are more flavors of pain than tea:
Little empty pains: empty pains of leaving something behind, from the familiar and safe into the unknown
Big overwhelming pains: when life seems to crush all your plans and expectations (mostly when related to people you make these plans with)
Sharp pains: mostly of failure or successes that seemed unsatisfactory
Vicious pains: when your hopes are torn up (mostly by a loved one)
Sweet pains: Finding people, giving them your love and enjoy life with them, all the while knowing it can only be temporary...
Pain has always been a big part of my life...and it did 2 things: it taught me and told me that i was alive. Then it passed away slowly but surely and changed me...
I would like to think it sometimes made me wiser or stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.
Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is what distinguishes us from God.
Realization strikes. There are more flavors of pain than tea:
Little empty pains: empty pains of leaving something behind, from the familiar and safe into the unknown
Big overwhelming pains: when life seems to crush all your plans and expectations (mostly when related to people you make these plans with)
Sharp pains: mostly of failure or successes that seemed unsatisfactory
Vicious pains: when your hopes are torn up (mostly by a loved one)
Sweet pains: Finding people, giving them your love and enjoy life with them, all the while knowing it can only be temporary...
Pain has always been a big part of my life...and it did 2 things: it taught me and told me that i was alive. Then it passed away slowly but surely and changed me...
I would like to think it sometimes made me wiser or stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.
Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is what distinguishes us from God.
Pain is part of happiness...at least that's why I tell myself...:D
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