“There are two kinds of pain in this world. The pain that hurts, the pain that alters.”
One of my favourite quotes from a movie.
That movie is The Equalizer 2.
TL;DR it’s what John Wick should’ve been.
Anyways. This isn’t going to be checklist and things you need to do but more a “hey you, yes you!” you need to reframe that pain.
Most of us are stuck in this type of limbo where we just let pain hurt us all the time.
We haven’t learnt to switch it around and use it as the type of pain that alters us.
Sometimes it does come naturally, or out of a forced situation, but most of the time the types of pain we suffer from are self inflicted due to how complacent and lazy we’ve become.
(Unless someone has driven a sledgehammer into your foot, then that’s real pain that hurts and you should probably get that checked out)
The point is this:
We can hurt and be in pain and be miserable and want to eat all of the cake and ignore the world. But that pain is just going to make us get deeper into a spiral.
We need to learn to use that pain and turn it into a pain that alters.
But do you know how to do that?
I’ll let you have a little think about it cause it’s definitely some weird spiritual and philosophical view, although it’s good to get the think-y bits in your brain box working again.
Stephen Walker.
P.S. If you haven’t seen them before. I suggest you watch them. It’s just better than John Wick.