bruce potterDistress is all right
September 19th 2006 08:42
In our society, we have come to believe that discomfort always means something is wrong. We are conditioned to believe that feelings of distress, pain, deprivation, yearning, and longing mean something is wrong with the way we are living our lives.
Conversely, we are convinced that a rightly lived life must give us serenity, completion, and fulfillment. Comfort means "right" and distress means "wrong." The influence of such convictions is stifling to the human spirit. Individually and collectively, we must somehow recover the truth. The truth is, we were never meant to be completely satisfied.
Somehow these thoghts put the tough days of singleness in a bigger and better light for many of us.
Cher
Conversely, we are convinced that a rightly lived life must give us serenity, completion, and fulfillment. Comfort means "right" and distress means "wrong." The influence of such convictions is stifling to the human spirit. Individually and collectively, we must somehow recover the truth. The truth is, we were never meant to be completely satisfied.
Somehow these thoghts put the tough days of singleness in a bigger and better light for many of us.
Cher
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Always Eighteen
if we were satisfied here on earth, then what would be the point of heaven?
I have never really felt "just right" about anything.
In a way, it has been beneficial. I have ambition. I have gained more. I have progressed further than I could have if not for my insecurities.
But at the same time, this yearning can eat me up. Sometimes, in the evil nights, I'm left feeling incredibly insecure and distant from myself and the whole damn city. Unable to sleep, I hopelessly acknowledge that highs and good feelings are only temporary, and I beg that that once, at least once, I could feel a day where the grass is greener where I am standing.