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I believe pain is necessary for two reasons... Your endurance to both mental and physical pain will grow with experiences, and as you learn about your capacity to deal with pain, you lose your fear of it. The person who has never left his hometown, for example, has no idea of his ability to weather the unknown storms he may encounter and so he tends to stay close to home.
The second reason is that pain gives you compassion for others and yourself. You have to fight and win your own battles in order to understand others. Ever notice that people who have everything handed to them tend to be pretty unhappy people as a whole? They have no value for themselves (or you) because they haven't had to own difficulty yet.
Pain is the currency you buy character with...
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Oft expectation fails...
and most oft there Where most it promises
- Shakespeare, W.
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