How you should look at Pain?

Hurry Emmanuel
Aug 28, 2017 · 3 min read

A long time ago, I woke up one day with pain everywhere, I was sick. I just sat there on the bed, you know like there is nothing to do like you are on holiday. Then last week, I was sick having pain in the chest and slight fever but I just jumped out of the bed and went to university. You may be asking yourself what changed?

You know when we are adolescents, we looked at life like we got lots of years to live. We focused more on our feelings than our thinking. We just react not pro-act. If we are in pain, we just stop and say to ourselves that we will do it tomorrow. Guys, there is no such thing as tomorrow.

We should stop looking at pain like something negative. All road to success you have to go through pain. An example is Steve Jobs, he was kicked out of his the company he started, he was devastated and depressed, but it was that that makes him be the great person he was, he uses the pain of failing to succeed. Let’s take a common one, Albert Einstein, whose name is the synonym of genius. He started to speak at 4 years and started to read at 7. His teacher said he would not amount to much. That must be painful for a kid to hear that.

Let just take it from another perspective. When you were a baby, you learned by observation, then you started doing the same thing, you tried to stand and then fell on your face, that hurt a lot (pain), what would have happened if this little you have just given up and stayed on the floor. Right, he would still be crawling and afraid of life like most of us are. When you are reading you are like “afraid of what man”. Guess again you are. The moment when you think something like Oh I can’t do that, I can’t post something on this what people will think about me, I can’t say that, the moment you suppressed yourself to conform to some others people opinions you already starting to fear. Fear of criticism. I will tell you today the truth: you got two types of criticism, one is good for you and the other is bad. The good one will make you grow as they will point some mistakes that you are doing but the other one comes from jealous people. You know the last one I don’t need to explain.

Even religion say it. If we look at the pain Jesus had to go through to free humanity from sin. After the rain comes the rainbow. Like Paulo Coelho said it in his book Aleph: you have to like the rain, to see the rainbow. You know what will happen if you give but you don’t what might happen if you keep going?

What do successful people do? They positively take the pain, they recycle their pain and get something out of it. They have a different mindset. A successful person will probably think something like this: “I’m already in pain, I am already hurt why don’t I get a reward from it”
It’s all about how you look of what happened and what will happen to you.

Pain is life but you can choose what type either the pain on the road to success or the pain of being haunted with regrets. — Prince EA

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