Do we cause our own pain?
I just read a short blog post where the writer asks his readers why we bring challenges into our lives. You can read it here.
Interesting the premise of the blog post, that we definitely do bring challenge into our lives. He doesn’t question that.
Well, I suppose I agree with him. Do you?
Answering his question of why we do it, I wrote the following comment on the post:
I always feel like it’s a (Jewish?) guilt thing… If things are feeling too easy, I must be doing something wrong and I must not be living life to its fullest. Life has to be challenging in order for me to fill my potential in this world.
It is also paranoia – when things are “too” good, I’m worried about when they’re going to get bad again. So when things are difficult, it’s almost like a comfort, knowing that things are how they “should” be.
Yeah, totally psycho. :)
I’m also wondering how much of the challenge found in the dating-for-marriage community is brought on by ourselves. How could each of us as individuals think or act differently so as to suffer less?
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