"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
posted by Michelle at 10:03 AM
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posted by Michelle at 10:03 AM
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"The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain."
We can not truly know one without having experienced that other.
Some of the kids that I work with carry unimaginable scars (inside and out) and yet so many of them have such incredible strength to have survived what they have been through. They don't even realize it most of the time until someone else points it out to them. They tend to see their lives as huge failures instead of recognizing the skills and ingenuity that it took to make it as far as they have.
I used to think that people who made it through their lives without any suffering were the lucky ones but now I'm not so sure about that. Gibran has another quote that goes hand in hand with this one:
"The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain."
Maybe the view from the mountain is sweeter because of the valley that we had to climb out of to get there.
But is suffering a requirement of building character? And does not some suffering, and the scars it brings, instead of building positive character, make for powerful, is negative characteristics?
That which does not kill you makes you stronger - but it does not mean it makes you better.
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