oh too long, far too long it's been since i last posted on here, actually i nearly had to figure out how to do it all over again, it's also been too long since i stood in celtic park, my self imposed exile has ended and i'm mad to get back there, looks like the hibs game in spetember, the huns game in october and perhaps the champions league might bring us to some sunny and exotic place as well, my preference right now would be croatia perhaps.
Reading fiction for the first time in about a year, the book seems to throw forward the idea that life and war is not about how much pain you can inflict, but how much you can endure, and of course it set me thinking that the only thing standing between us and whatever we desire in this life is fear, fear of the pain it will cause us to get whatever it is, and that once we decide to have what we want, we have only once question to answer.
Are we willing to endure what has to be endured in order to achieve it?
we know, or we can easily find out what must be done, once we have set our objectives, it does not take an awful lot to figure out the raod that must be traveled, if we want to lose weight we know it is going to take sacrifice and exercise, if we want to be a magician it will take learning and endless practice, if we want a new BMW you have to spend lesss or earn more, earning more will mean doing stuff you don't particularly like, or working harder, it's all pain, and we need to figure how much we can get used too, how much we can endure.
That's why we test and stretch ourselves, a life without any pain is a void, the sort of void that one finds when they are hign on heroin, when they blank the world out with alcohol, when they lie to themselves.
There is no such thing as a world without pain, it would be a non world, that does not mean that we should always welcome it, but we should surely respect it's good side, it makes us stronger, it forces us to learn, it's is not a one dimensional "bad" thing that needs to be relieved as soon as it starts, that would make us a world of spoilt brats who get everything we want to avoid the pain.
what am i really trying to say here, i think that i am saying that pain is neither a good or bad thing, it has two sides, and if we want to grow, if we want to sidestep the void, if we want to satisfy our yearning gnawing hunger, then we can only do it by having the courage to decide to face the pain, but to facing it knowing that we will come through it, that it will paly a valuable role in our lives and that if we want to grow,to become strong, wise, courageous, attractive human beings, the we have to take the hit, we have to endure the pain.... it's not our enemy, it's not our friend, but it is our ally, an ally that we should appreciate and respect.
