Worth the suffering...
Some say suffering is inevitable - Life is suffering.
And many days (ok, most), that seems right. We do the "wrong" thing, and we take the hit we knew was coming. But, then, we do the "right" thing, and Wham! Still, we get knocked around... maybe Buddha was right.
Where does that leave us?
If suffering is inevitable, if there is going to be pain no matter what you do, if you can't escape it, then what?
I actually came up with an answer -
Make what you do worth suffering for.
For example, is working 40 hours a week at your job worth suffering for?
Is it worth it?
How you spend your downtime, is it worth the pain that's going to come?
Your relationships, are they quality enough to be worth suffering for?
Instead of living to avoid pain, maybe we should strive to make life worth any amount of pain that may come.
Avoiding the risk that comes with doing what we feel truly compelled to do seems silly if we're gonna get knocked down, anyway.
The real risk is in not doing anything worth getting knocked down for.
If, in the end, I look in the mirror and see a battered and bruised man before me, I hope to hear three words coming from a smiling face:
Totally worth it!
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