Pain : No Pain - No Gain

 

Loved this : Being practical isn't about abandoning hopes and dreams. It's about turning dreams into goals, goals into plans, plans into actions, and actions into habits. You don't have to choose between being a dreamer and a doer. Progress depends on transforming vision into reality.

And the road to it is not a cake walk. We need to know our values, and understand what pain to go through and what not. 

The recent book - 'The Subtle Art of Not giving a Fuck ' and movie 'Uunchai' was about embracing pain and am in love with this song. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU-Lz0jTa3o

Tell yes to life. You are the medicine to your pain, the reason for it and the solution. Make it the reason for your life. Get up and embrace your pain, and fly high. 

As one of Sadguru's talk goes:

"Pain is just there in the body. Suffering is something that you create. But you need not create it. If you are aware, you will not create suffering for yourself. The only reason why anyone would create suffering for himself is because he is unaware. Would you create suffering for yourself intentionally?"

One need not suffer as they go through pain. As Kapil Dev said in one of his interviews - He enjoyed his game, because he played with passion; but today, people go through pressure. It is how we perceive and take it, that makes a difference. 

And as I post this next day, Adam Grant posts:

Resilence is not resistance, its the capacity to bend without breaking. Strength doesn't come from ignoring pain. It stems from knowing that your past self has hurt and your future self will heal. Fortitude is the presence of resolve, not the absence of hardship.