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This reminds me of a Tony Dungy speech I once read. Apparently, one of his sons, Jordan, is incapable of feeling pain. As a result, they have to make accomodations for him. Some people think that not feeling pain might be a 'gift'. Dungy assures us it is anything BUT a gift. Without pain, you run the risk of burning your hand or cutting a finger on a knife and not only not realizing it (potentially dying), but also you lack the ability to realize you need to avoid it in the future.
Pain helps us categorize information, and helps us grow and manage our ability to determine what we can and should do.
Value carries the same role in life. We learn value through painful lessons, not lessons which benefit us. If all we did was benefit, then we'd have no idea we were really benefiting! What if you won at the card table every time you played? Sounds great, right? It's a classic Twilight Zone episode, though, when the gangster wins all the time and gets all the girls and eventually realizes he's in Hell, not Heaven.
Jul 9, 2013, 5:52:56 PM
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