Endurance by Pan Bourcier Hidalgo

No matter how much you sleep, eat, listen to music, or cry, none of it will be able to take away the pain that we all experience from life. I have tried all of these things and much worse in the past. Eventually though I come back to myself and have to acknowledge the unbearable aching and agonizing growing pains of life. Thankfully there is a purpose for our pain. Pain empties you out, pain deepens your soul, and pain lets you know that you are passionate about something.

One of the things I can count on is my endurance. Endurance is built through facing life challenges and being able to get through it. Not only do we get through them but we also turn them into our strengths. I have done this enough to know the process. It doesn’t make the pain any less bearable but at least I know what comes next. I hope that I will soon shatter so deeply that it will purge any fear I have of pain.

When you are not afraid of something shattering you, when you are not afraid of feeling the full spectrum of human emotion it puts you in a position to do anything. You are capable of anything at this point because what is going to stop you? I want to go talk to that person I am attracted to. What is the worst that could happen? They reject you? If you are not afraid of this feeling then it’s not a big deal. This is the key to being able to do anything. We are not going to magically stop feeling, but when our fear of feeling dissipates, an infinite amount of possibilities open up in our world. I welcome all that shatters me, this is where true freedom lies.
*Read more of my series Pan’s Labyrinth here
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Pan Bourcier Hidalgo is a Dancer who is originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her blog series, Pan’s Labyrinth, discusses Self-Discovery and Personal Evolution.

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