JUSTIN RICKLEFS.

Post | 2021-10-22

The Promise of Pain

Life, and therefore certainly work, is messy, hard, uncertain, confusing, at times broken, complex, scary, heavy, and full of humans and problems.

A pain-free, happy-always existence isn’t possible.

And in fact, it’s in the pain, and when that pain can be met with understanding, compassion, empathy, real honesty, and friendship, where the brightness emerges.

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