Life - full of joy as well as pain

DEVIL-Liv every moment of life (ca final) (1735 Points)

12 June 2013  

 

As Benjamin Franklin said, "Those things that hurt, instruct."

Life is difficult.

This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths.  It is a great

truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.

Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand                               

and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because

once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer

matters.

Most of US  do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead

We  moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about

the enormity of our  problems, our burdens, and our difficulties

as if life was  generally easy, as if life should be

easy. We  voice our  belief, noisily or subtly, that our

difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should

not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon

us,   and not upon others.

We all  know about this moaning because We all have done our share.frownenlightened

Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about

them or solve them?

What makes life difficult is that the process of confronting

and solving problems is a painful one. Problems, depending

upon their nature, evoke in us frustration or grief or sadness

or loneliness or guilt or regret or anger or fear or anxiety or

anguish or despair. These are uncomfortable feelings, often

very uncomfortable, often as painful as any kind of physical

pain, sometimes equaling the very worst kind of physical

pain. Indeed, it is because of the pain that events or

conflicts engender in us all that we call them problems. And

since life poses an endless series of problems, life is always

difficult and is full of pain as well as joy.

As Benjamin Franklin said, "Those things that

hurt, instruct." It is for this reason that wise people learn not

to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to

welcome the pain of problems.

let us teach ourselves the necessity for suffering and the value

thereof, the need to face problems directly and to

experience the pain involved.

 

People and circumstances will occasionally break us down.  But if we keep our mind focused, our heart open to possibility, and continue to put one foot in front of the other, we will be able to quickly recover the pieces, rebuild, and come back much stronger than We ever would have been otherwise.

 

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.- Mae West

 

 

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