Do you want to become resilient? Do you want to live up to your true potential as a human being? Are you ready to take life by the throat and suck out all its marrow, as Thoreau put it?
Then give up the idea it's going to be easy or comfortable. Give up looking for ease and pleasure and start looking for challenge. Teach yourself to revel in challenges and difficulties, spend your time devising tests for yourself and thinking of ways to make yourself tougher.
Confucius said, "The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor can the human being be perfected without trials." This principle is immutable.
"No one ever became holy being coddled in his mother's arms," said the Eastern Christian sages.
You have to know fatigue, exhaustion and even failure if you want to become a "real person". Failure, by the way, is not defeat. Defeat only occurs when you give up! The person who falls and yet never gives up is a true warrior.
We can't boast about our civilization until we're worthy of it. In ancient Greece it was said that being born in Sparta doesn't make you a real Spartan. In ancient Rome they said that being born Italian did not make you a Roman. These names were to be won by sweat and blood.
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~ Dr. Symeon Rodger
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