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Pain
It pains me to confess to you how essential pain is to the human experience.
Without this aggravation, we are in danger of becoming self-righteous—feeling invincible, and dare I say, claiming to be a chosen race or a Super-people.
We are not known by our victories but are qualified by our failures.
It is pain that lets me know what my brothers and sisters are feeling.
During this pandemic, it has been essential for each of us to feel some of the pain of the virus to remain empathetic to those whose lives have been stolen through it.
Merely losing dollars and being inconvenienced still softens our hearts a little bit—considering the ultimate cost of taking our last breath.
I don’t know who we are without pain.
All of our heroes struggle.
All of our saviors die.
And all of our comrades suffer in the trenches with us, as we endure the infliction.
Pain prevents us from becoming irrationally self-important.
No one likes pain.
No one wants pain.
It is why, on occasion, we all require pain.
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