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It’s a small epiphany, but it just seems so true. And so simple. Of course the most simple things in life are always the least easy.
It seems like people, when starting a new relationship with someone else whatever that may be, always tend to allow and accept the good things to happen, it seems people pray for something good, something great to happen, but then no one seems willing to take on the bad that almost always comes along with the good. Maybe that’s why it hurts so bad when things go wrong.
Maybe it’s like getting a piercing or a tattoo. We go in with the intention of getting something we want, we know it’s going to hurt, but we also know that the pain will subside and that we will move on knowing we’ve gotten something we wanted. We tell ourselves it was worth it, pain and all. Of course, it would be silly to go into a tattoo parlor and tell them, “I’d like to get a magnificent tattoo, but I don’t want it to hurt.”
Why should it be different with anything else? How can we say that we want something good, something great, something magnificent to happen for us but be willing to take only that?
Love and pain always seem to go hand in hand. What if we started accepting both? Maybe if we’re willing to endure pain, just as much as we are willing to endure love or what have you, then maybe it wouldn’t hurt so bad. Maybe then when things do go wrong, it will be easier to handle. Maybe if we are able to make peace with the pain that hasn’t already happened, we can move on easier when it does happen. Maybe we wouldn’t dwell in our sorrow as much as we would have if at all. Maybe then we can take all the good, the great and the magnificent along with us and leave behind the pain we had to go through to get it. Maybe then we can say to ourselves, “That was worth it.”