The Pain You Feel Today Is The Joy You’ll Feel Tomorrow

Pain will always be part of your success story . . .

Spencer Sekulin
The Art of Being

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“Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.” ~John Sterling

Life is painful.

Are you alive right now? Is your heart beating? Then welcome to life, and welcome to pain.

That sounds pessimistic, but it’s the truth. Everyone will feel pain in life. No one avoids it, because it’s part of being a living thing and, more importantly, a part of being human.

The question is not whether you will feel pain. The real question, and a deciding factor in how your life works out, is your relationship with pain.

Is it a conscious one, or is it an unconscious one?

Is it deliberate, or is it reactionary?

Pain has two faces. Which one do you see?

Life will bring pain regardless of what you do. If you try to avoid pain, a greater pain will find you later. There is no escape from it, for it is part of what shapes us. It’s not just in the things that hurt us:

Pain permeates everything that makes…

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Spencer Sekulin
The Art of Being

Paramedic | Writer | Creator | Work In Progress | Contributor for Better Humans, Mind Cafe, and more. Let’s learn and grow together. https://spencersekulin.net