Enjoy the pain

When life “hits” you, we have been taught to get up, and never give up. My way of "fighting" life has always been to not give so much importance to bad things, to evade those blows from life. I now believe that if you avoid and ignore the bad things that are happening, you are not fighting: you are running away.

Take those blows, accept them, feel them. Faced with all those bad things that happen to you: get angry, sad, disappointed, and move on. Do not ignore or forget them, for they are valuable lessons.

Don't run from the pain. Since we were kids, we've run away from unpleasant things because we thought they were "bad". When you grow up, you start to realize that they are a part of life. Bitter coffee, sad novels, even the intense pain the day after exercising, are things that you can somehow enjoy. If you've involuntarily laughed when something hurts a lot, you'll know what I mean. If you have laughed ironically at something unfortunate or unfair, if you "laugh so as not to cry", you'll know too.

When we start to accept pain, we will be more prepared to face life.