I am reading a Chinese book called “Being Happy.” There’s one section in that book that talks about “The worth of feeling hurt.” The author mentioned that feeling hurt has its own value. It’s worth it when we get hurt, for without feeling hurt, we might not realize the joy of happiness. The author brought an example of a miracle that happened to a young girl. When she was born, she did not cry at all, for she had the unique power of “not feeling hurt.” Right when she grew a little bit bigger, she fell down and broke her chin, yet she didn’t cry. She played with the fire, and got herself burned, yet she also didn’t cry because she did not feel hurt at all. She placed a major concern to her parents. They had to watch her very close. From this story, it got me to think that if we do not feel hurt, we probably do not know how to take care of our emotional and physical parts very well. This runs parallel with the old saying that “no pain, no gain.” It is from pain that we gain the realization of joy and excitement.
On the other hand, if everything goes well all the time, what do you think about that kind of life? During this year’s Olympic game, India has won the first gold medal in the shooting game. The guy who got the medal got a lot of rewards. One of the rewards was a free lifetime air travel. One of my colleague who is Indian, she said I can play piano and write the song, and maybe one day I can win the reward like that. She knew that I like to travel a lot. I just laughed and responded that a free lifetime air travel is nice, but that would make me want to travel all the time, what if one day the plane crashed? Haha…. This is so not like living my life to the fullest with “iffing”, but the point is, there’s always a possibility of things that can go wrong. If life is always nice and smooth, then how are we going to learn and experience things differently? How are we going to realize the worth of feeling hurt, and the gain from pain? The true taste of life is made of two main ingredients: happy and sad. Without feeling sad, we won’t be able to strive for being happy.
On the other hand, if everything goes well all the time, what do you think about that kind of life? During this year’s Olympic game, India has won the first gold medal in the shooting game. The guy who got the medal got a lot of rewards. One of the rewards was a free lifetime air travel. One of my colleague who is Indian, she said I can play piano and write the song, and maybe one day I can win the reward like that. She knew that I like to travel a lot. I just laughed and responded that a free lifetime air travel is nice, but that would make me want to travel all the time, what if one day the plane crashed? Haha…. This is so not like living my life to the fullest with “iffing”, but the point is, there’s always a possibility of things that can go wrong. If life is always nice and smooth, then how are we going to learn and experience things differently? How are we going to realize the worth of feeling hurt, and the gain from pain? The true taste of life is made of two main ingredients: happy and sad. Without feeling sad, we won’t be able to strive for being happy.
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