Choose Your Suffering

No matter what you do, you will suffer because life is suffering.

You will suffer the pain of never amounting to your own expectations.

Equally, should you achieve something, you will suffer the sacrifices it took to get there.

There is no path forward that doesn’t involve pain and suffering.

Failure to acknowledge this is ignorance at its very best.

There are no handouts.

Everything has a cost.

The better question to ask is, what pain would you prefer?

The pain of failure, resentment, and quiet desperation?

Or the pain of discipline, standards, and pursuing something more?

You can choose to numb your pain with the vices you desperately depend on in the short term.

But in the long term, those same vices will deepen your pain, deepen your suffering, and saturate your self-esteem.

We make our own path, write our own story, and choose our own suffering.

The kind of suffering we choose is what’s important.