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Originally Posted by MageB420666
And so by wishing someone to have no pain, you are abondoning them to a realm of nothing, there is no desire to improve, no desire to do anything really, because they would never feel the pain of an experience lost.
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Damn, that's good. Having read lots of literature on suffering (mostly to make sense of my own painful experiences), I have to say that pain is the soul's best teacher. And by this I don't necessarily mean physical pain, as I am NOT a masochist. I just feel that there is no other way to learn anything and grow up unless it hurts on the inside and thus helps you understand the bigger picture.
Personally I have a hard time respecting people who take the easy way, and I also don't respect myself when I start slacking on the spiritual/soul/mental (whatever you want to call it) discipline. I think the human mind really needs hard knocks in order to fulfill its full potential, but most people (including me) get pretty damn lazy when things get comfortable. So we all float around half-ass, thinking "this is life, isn't it great?"... and missing what's really out there.
Everyone wants a perfect life, but in the end, what's the point? I become a vegetable without pain... dead inside, despite my outward busy-ness and comfort. Hell maybe I am a masochist. I don't know.
"Life is pain, highness... anyone who tells you differently is selling something." (Dread Pirate Roberts,
The Princess Bride)