For how long shall we seek alternative truths?
One bible, a bazillion interpretations.
Heck! One verse, a multitude of interpretations.
“…Love your neighbour as yourself…” – Mark 12:31
For verse 30 it’s even worse.
In 31, your neighbour, you can see. We can all agree on that. But that does not spare it from these alternative truths.
Not even academia is spared for:
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” – Benjamin Disraeli
Now for the main reason for this post.
No pain, no gain.
Meaningful progress — whether physical, emotional, or personal — usually requires effort, struggle, or discomfort along the way.
Whether progress or life. Looking back, you get to realise the pain or struggle, as hard as it was at the time. As painful as it was at the time. Got you to where you needed to be.
To wish for a life without pain seems reasonable. Until you think about it – No pain, no gain.
And you realize that you can’t have one without the other.
Let’s take care with this one. I am not saying the bad things that may have happened to you, were OK, or were right.
I am saying that there are things that have happened since the bad thing that would have never happened otherwise.
Asking
Should bad things happen?
Is similar to asking:
Should progress happen?
What we really want is to choose the bad experience, to choose our pain.
But life doesn’t always give us a choice. Sometimes we chose, sometimes it’s chosen for us
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