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Growth Happens When You Find Meaning in Your Suffering. Here’s How
‘To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.’ -Friedrich Nietzsche
Many people want and expect life to be easy. They look at people with fame and money and wish they could be in their shoes.
However, the brutal truth is: there is no one who gets a pain free ride. There isn’t a single person on this earth who’s living without pain and suffering.
Whether you live your dreams or not, life is always going to be hard. However, what you choose to do about it is entirely up to you. Said Ryan Holiday,
“What happens to us is an objective reality, how we respond is a subjective choice.”
The remainder of this article will explain why this is a blessing not a curse. Here we go.
You Cannot Have Growth Without a Struggle
“You couldn’t have strength without weakness, you couldn’t have light without dark, you couldn’t have love without loss” -Jodi Picoult
According to Newton’s Third Law, all forces come in pairs, for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
