3.13.2014

They Tell Us

They tell us to know our limitations in order to stretch beyond them, because only then can we succeed.


But it is also the only way we can fail.
We stretch beyond what we can accomplish, and tear and crack into pieces. This process, whether it ends in triumph or defeat, is always painful beyond our previous imaginations. Still, we tell ourselves that this is a necessary pain. Is that really true?
Is the sum of our lives the height of pain that we reach, the pinnacle that we are able to achieve before shouting out ‘No more!’? I’d like to believe that there is more, that human beings are meant to suffer and endure for only so much a portion of their lives.
I want to believe that eventually there is peace to be found, if one is lucky. And if not peace, then at least some form of contentment.
Yes, that must be a worthy goal for one’s life: simple contentment.

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