The hidden gifts of your pain

The wound is the place where light enters you – Rumi

Our deepest pain often inspires us to grow into our highest selves.

Pain is an experience all humans share and are sometimes unavoidable. Close your eyes and remember some of the most painful experiences of your life. During each of these experiences, you must have emerged with some learnings and insights that could have turned into a miracle life growth formula for you.

Tough times can shape you into a more robust and wiser person than you might otherwise have been. It teaches you the difference between pleasure (immediate gratification for your body or ego) and happiness (seeking long-term growth for yourself as a thriving individual). It makes you learn not to get caught up in the noise of society; instead, tune within.

You begin to understand the values you operate from, and everything in life gets slightly more manageable. You know why you do what you do, whom you need to do it for etc. You get sure of your actions. You begin to project a better snapshot of yourself to the world. You learn how to be.

As you move forward, your approach towards solitude changes. In times of further personal turbulence, you explore solitude and find intelligent ways to throw toxicity out of your life in a better way.

Your past pain often leads you to a meaningful, value-driven, and purposeful life. Your learnings become healing for yourself and everyone around you. There is tremendous value to the most challenging experience. It's the silver lining to life. In some ways, suffering ceases to be suffering when it finds meaning.