"What hurts you only makes you stronger"

Written: Sunday, June 13, 1999. 

Whomever thought this must have been hurt quite a bit in life and survived it all.  To have a positive attitude about pain proves experience.  Only after experiencing pain over and over again can you learn from it. 

Pain is a great teacher.  It teaches you what bounds you are willing to take to survive it.  Also, what changes you are willing to make in the aftermath of it.  Pain consumers you, tears at your heart and takes a piece of you with it.  It never dies, but only hides in the shadows, waiting to consume you again.

But pain is its own worst enemy.  The more it builds in the shadows, the more strength one person gains - the strength to survive and have a positive outlook and learn from it.  To learn that sometimes pain is necessary to come, in order for you to realize what turns in the road you want to take in life.  It makes you realize you are only human, and are very capable of feeling every emotion - that you are not above it.

It let's you know you are alive.  Without pain there is no happiness, and without happiness there is no life.