Life has pain in it. Anyone who says it’s 100% possible to avoid feeling pain through ANY method is full of shit. Babies come into the world crying.
And yet there is a lot of good stuff, too. Pain can in fact be okay. Trying to avoid pain can also be denying the fact that it is possible to grow through pain, to honor life through pain, and to find beauty in pain. That to love another person means being ok with the fact that at some point there will be some pain! So will choosing to be alone!
The point of life isn’t to constantly run. It isn’t to slap a happy face on everything and do endless gratitude mantras.
Be okay with reality. See it for what it is. There is some grisly shit–have you opened your eyes to our climate problems? And the effect on animals and our environment? Not to mention humans?
But maybe you can make something beautiful out of pain, draw some hope, some meaning. Make a song, a book, a speech. Do something cool with it. That’s the real deal, right there.
