Surrendering to Life

We are hedonistic creatures. We seek pleasure, but most of all, we try to avoid pain. But at times, in life, there is no negotiating your way out of suffering. You have to sit with it. However much you fight it, however heroic even your struggles may seem, you surrender to the pain. You let it do its worst. It will pummel you down, and every time you stand up, you look it in the face and ask, “Are you done yet? Is there anything left?” Until it shrinks and cowers away into a corner of your tormented soul. And you finally can walk this Earth, a free person.

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