There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine.
And, dying, it rises above its own agony to outcarol the lark and the nightingale.
One superlative song, existence the price.
But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles.
For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain….
Or so says the legend.
You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, but you do have a say in who hurts you, and I like my choices.
I feel sick. Not like for a doctor, but inside my chest it feels empty, like getting punched and a heartburn at the same time.
Also, I doubt a bonding experience without pain would be a fruitful one.
This world is full of things that you can't change. The longer you live… The more you realize that reality is just made of pain, suffering and emptiness. In this world, wherever there is light – there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exists, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars, and hatred is born to protect love.
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down.
When I say it doesn’t hurt me, that means I can bear it.
— So he stays in touch?
— All the time.
— So that makes it impossible to forget him, which is great for him, but sucks for you.
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.