Pain is Temporary

Trying to avoid pain is like trying to avoid the inevitable. Pain demands to be felt. While you can run from it, it’s inescapable. But, something I’ve learned recently is that whatever type of pain your feeling right now is temporary.

I’m sure you’ve heard this a million times like I have. I never believed this statement because I allowed my pain to turn into suffering. I let it fester, I let it build up until it exploded and almost tore me apart. But, it is temporary.

Have you ever recognized how quickly things change? Today, I looked back even a year and realized how much my life has been altered in such a short period of time. What about five years? I was living in the same place I am now, but a completely different person with a dangerous mindset on life and I have grown immensely since then. Things that I once could not even fathom or feel like I could handle, like my dad passing away, has been something I’ve had to withstand. And even now I’m still standing with my feet firmly planted on the ground and grateful that I’m alive everyday. But, the pain it’s temporary. Maybe not grief or the memories I had, but that pain it wains each day that I don’t let it overtake me. At one point in my life, I didn’t want to see another day because I was afraid of how much more pain it would cause me. Until I allowed that pain to fuel me into the person I am now.

Like I said, pain is inevitable. Suffering isn’t always a consequence of our actions, sometimes it’s the consequence of being human. You can allow it to turn you into someone you don’t even recognize. Or you can take it by the throat and stop letting it consume you. There are things that I thought I would never be able to let go of that caused me so much pain even my body would react to that trigger. I stopped letting it control me though and allowed it to become the boss bitch I am now. Never allow your circumstance to become your shortcomings in life. Pain is only temporary. If you can stand another few hours, days, months, weeks, or years. You’ll see that pain was worth it.