Is pain necessary for growth? The thing about pain that makes it very unappealing is the fact that it hurts. Its true that we can grow from such pain, but is pain really necessary? There are many other ways to grow. We can train ourselves and use theories and successes to understand the process in which we must go through and grow by applying that to our lives, but pain? Failure? Defeat? Is all that necessary? Unfortunately, I believe that it is necessary because only through pain can we emotionally ingrain the truths we gain from the hurt we place on ourselves. It is because we are all driven ultimately by our emotion, that defies logic and reasoning, that we need to understand that pain is necessary in this world so we would be able to perceive what order is. Without darkness, we cannot understand the beauty of light. Without sadness, we cannot enjoy the comfort that joy brings us. In the same way, with pain, we can now fully appreciate the healing and revitalization, which is where growth occurs. Just as our muscles need to have micro tears in order to become stronger, the heart and the mind must undergo the same sort of breakdown in order to become stronger. So what does that mean for us? It means that we must accept that pain. There will be a grieving process and we may feel like we are sucked in by darkness, but because we are in that darkness, we can see that far off, distant to us, we see a light. As we traverse through the darkness, that light is the lighthouse that guides us to help us grow, and with that growth, we come out of the darkness a different person, a wiser person... an individual that has undergone growth.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 13:32:08 +0000
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