Your pain is not special – but what you do with it is.
Almost every single painful thing we go through in our lives, has happened to someone in history before. It’s an empowering thought, to know that you’re not alone in your struggles and to know that someone else in history has gone through and beaten the same thing your facing.
But it could make you feel common, knowing that this incredible struggle and pain you are enduring is just what everyone goes through and doesn’t complain about.
But this is the key distinction. Your pain is not special, because many people will be going through or have gone through similar things – HOWEVER, what the majority won’t have done, is deal with it properly.
Once you start noticing how people deal with problems and struggles in life, it becomes clear how they don’t actually deal with it at all. They mask, distract, deflect and numb. Thats what makes their pain common.
Dont let your suffering give you an excuse.
Let it give you a reason!
A reason to heal, to fight, to love, to grow, to WIN
Use the fact that no one else is going to deal with this as healthily or as stoically as you are to propel you into doing it.
You owe it to yourself to take this event and turn it into something prosperous and special as much as you can. Otherwise you will fade into the herd, and it won’t be special.
This is a special opportunity, keep it that way.