Sometimes thing just strike a nerve, I just put this on a friends blog but I think it should be posted for all to read.
"Growing up is about getting hurt, and then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you will get hurt again. But each time yo learn something. Each time you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize that there are more flavors of pain thta coffee. There's the little empty pain of leaving something behind - graduating, taking the next step forward, walking out of something familiar and safe into the unknown. There's the big whirling pain of life upending all of your plans and expectations. There's the sharp little pains of failure, and the more obscure aches of successes that didn't give you thought they would. Threre at the vicious, stabbing pains of hopes being torn up. The sweet little pains of finding others and giving them your love, and taking joy in their life as they grow and learn. There's the steady pain of empathy that you shrug off so you can stand besde a wounded friend ans help bear their burdens. And if you're very, very lucky, there are a very few blazing hot pains you feel when you realize that your are standing in a moment of utter perfection, at instant of triumph, or happiness, or mirth which at the same time cannot possibly last - and yet will remain with you for life. Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it. Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it's a big part, and sometimes it isn't, but either way, it's part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way pain leaves its mark, and everything important in your life is going to involve it one degree or another."
The Dresden Files book White Knight
"Growing up is about getting hurt, and then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you will get hurt again. But each time yo learn something. Each time you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize that there are more flavors of pain thta coffee. There's the little empty pain of leaving something behind - graduating, taking the next step forward, walking out of something familiar and safe into the unknown. There's the big whirling pain of life upending all of your plans and expectations. There's the sharp little pains of failure, and the more obscure aches of successes that didn't give you thought they would. Threre at the vicious, stabbing pains of hopes being torn up. The sweet little pains of finding others and giving them your love, and taking joy in their life as they grow and learn. There's the steady pain of empathy that you shrug off so you can stand besde a wounded friend ans help bear their burdens. And if you're very, very lucky, there are a very few blazing hot pains you feel when you realize that your are standing in a moment of utter perfection, at instant of triumph, or happiness, or mirth which at the same time cannot possibly last - and yet will remain with you for life. Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it. Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it's a big part, and sometimes it isn't, but either way, it's part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way pain leaves its mark, and everything important in your life is going to involve it one degree or another."
The Dresden Files book White Knight
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The longer you play with them, the harder they get.
let's runaway together. let's go somewhere no one will find us. it will be quite the scandal.