Learning Your Lesson

Learning is crucial to our existence.
We all know how it is; learning is not always easy.
Learning how to act, how to think, how to live, how to love.
When I think of learning, I think about pain. That anguish of taking it to the next level. Digging yourself out of blood and fire.

But we do learn. Our mistakes, our realizations, our wrongdoings. We live and we learn.

Automatically, I think "The more pain, greater the gain". And maybe it's true. Maybe it's not.

But what matters is that it is something I have learned. From my mistakes. From my wrongdoings, and my lack of realization.

The only thing to do is to grit your teeth and bare one more day. Because just like pain teaches us a lesson, happiness does too. And there is a lot more to learn from happiness than there is from pain. But in order to reach happiness, or at least being content, pain needs to pave the way for us.

So instead of fighting it, let it in, and listen carefully.
A lesson learned, a day passed.
A chance to make the next that much better.