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Emoshadow Nigeria
Student @ Redeemers University
In Mental Health 2 min read
Choose Your Suffering
<p style="text-align: center;">Nobody really tells you this growing up, but suffering is unavoidable.</p><p style="text-align: center;">No matter how careful you are, how kind, how smart, or how disciplined — pain finds everyone eventually.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The real choice isn’t whether you’ll suffer.</p><p style="text-align: center;">It’s how.</p><p style="text-align: center;">You can suffer the pain of discipline —</p><p style="text-align: center;">or the pain of regret.</p><p style="text-align: center;">You can suffer through building something slowly —</p><p style="text-align: center;">or suffer watching time pass while nothing changes.</p><p style="text-align: center;">You can suffer the discomfort of growth —</p><p style="text-align: center;">or suffer the emptiness of staying the same.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Every path costs something.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Staying where you are feels safe, but it comes with quiet frustration.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Trying something new feels scary, but it comes with the chance of meaning.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Avoiding hard conversations saves you stress today,</p><p style="text-align: center;">but costs you peace tomorrow.</p><p style="text-align: center;">And the hardest part?</p><p style="text-align: center;">The “easy” choices don’t feel painful at first.</p><p style="text-align: center;">They feel comfortable.</p><p style="text-align: center;">They feel harmless.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Until one day you wake up and realize the suffering has been accumulating quietly.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Choosing your suffering doesn’t mean choosing misery.</p><p style="text-align: center;">It means choosing purposeful pain over pointless pain.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The kind that builds strength instead of resentment.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The kind that stretches you instead of shrinking you.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The kind that hurts now, but heals later.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Because in the end, life will demand something from you anyway —</p><p style="text-align: center;">your time, your energy, your heart.</p><p style="text-align: center;">So you might as well decide</p><p style="text-align: center;">what’s worth hurting for.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Choose the suffering that moves you forward.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Choose the pain that teaches you something.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Choose the struggle that still lets you recognize yourself when you look back.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Pain is coming either way.</p><p style="text-align: center;">You don’t get to avoid it.</p><p style="text-align: center;">But you do get to choose</p><p style="text-align: center;">which version of it shapes you.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br/></p><p style="text-align: center;">The End.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Credits:Confidential 🙂</p>

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