Pain

I love pain. More precisely, I love when people (including myself) take on pain for a purpose. I don’t love pain for its own sake and I don’t want to cause pain in order for the other person to stay in it.

I get so much joy out of the process of diving into pain knowing that relief, joy, and peace are on the other side. I get a ton of satisfaction out of knowing we can cast off the chains that have been dragging us down if we only inspect them more closely. I believe that we can escape the shadows that haunt us not by always keeping the lights on, but rather by choosing to turn them off and facing what appears.