When I say: “pain offers understanding, suffering happens when we lose ourselves in pain” do you think I am blaming suffering on people’s attitude towards pain?
Some do.
I don’t.
I do not blame anyone for suffering, but – and this is a very big “but” – I do believe everyone is responsible for it. Everyone who suffers. Everyone who is in pain.
Why do I say that? Is it because I am a cold-hearted, apodictical bitch devoid of empathy and without an ounce of compassion? Possibly, but even if that’s the case, still there is more. There is that it is by taking full responsibility for the pain, the suffering, that we achieve the power and the freedom to heal it.
As long as the pain is something that happens to us, that has been done to us by others (whether other humans, faith, destiny, God) there is little we can do to change it.And yes, sometime the pain is overwhelming and sometime it is excruciating and sometime it is unbearable and even so – what’s so is what’s so. I can only heal and transform that which is mine to heal and transform.
Before I can affect it – I have to claim it. As mine.
