Don't Let Pain Make You Bitter
Your response to pain determines if you walk the path of good or evil.
We pray for change but are quick to run away from the pain that comes with it.
One’s character is the bundle of their experiences: moments of joy, heartbreak, serendipity…
All the moments we were fully alive, even when we wished not to be.
This is who we are.
You can call life a burden or miracle.
Rationally, we never asked for any of this.
Thrust into existence in a world caught in the trap of materialist survival.
Quick fixes, shallow connections.
We dispose of one another without any regard for the bigger picture.
It would be easy to curse God and take a path of vengeance on the very nature of existence.
Why have we been thrust into a crooked world and delivered into limitless pain?
We did not ask for this, so let’s throw it right back at the world it came from.
Over the course of our short time here we encounter struggle.
It is from this that we can determine who we will be.
Walking the path of good and evil is determined by what you choose to do when you encounter the teacher that is pain.
To seek vengeance on the world and all those in it is evil.
You become exactly what hurt you.
Understand that we often don’t get to pick our early circumstances, the struggle that defines us.
We’re forced to carry the weight of the world against our own will.
Often, it’s all we know.
We aren’t responsible for circumstances out of our control, but we are responsible for how we choose to carry it forward.
You can choose to hurt or choose to heal.
To use your pain as a vehicle of transformation and work to do good in spite of it is the highest virtue of honor.
“A life without honor is not a life.”
The dark nights will continue to come.
Character is not measured in sunny days.
It’s easy to be good when times are good.
Character is measured by our consistent response to periods of darkness.
The wars in this world are no different than the pain I feel in my own heart.
Don’t let pain make you bitter.
Envision the person you dream to be.
Commit to becoming it.
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