Whispering rumors, a dot, then a stain. Festering tumors both fancy and plain. To those who find humor in all they disdain, will you recite the pleasures of pain?

Is there anything more satisfying than overcoming a great tragedy? I propose to you that nothing in this life is more capable of allowing us to realize our truest self, than suffering. Why then should we avoid it?

Suffering and enduring pain is nothing more than another form of challenge. Whether it be self induced, or put upon us by unseen forces, it is the challenges of life that make life worth living.

Have you not heard,
“Meaninglessness arises from too much pleasure. Meaningfulness arises from enduring tragedy”?

I know not which mind to attribute this quote to. But it has marked me as its Disciple.

Yes of course, we all enjoy a quiet stroll on easy street from time to time. Yet, a person who embraces confrontation, one who harmonizes with agony and distress, that enlightened heart which refuses to wallow in the Now of affliction, that soul is the amalgamation of quintessence and humility, discovering their eternal core from that which is most often feared.

Has anything changed who you are as a person more than enduring and overcoming pain?