How we grow

It is peculiar how we grow. Enduring pain and sipping sweet pleasure along the way, we do learn. Nothing stays the same; be that pain or pleasure and since change is the only constant rule and life waits for no one as it goes on, then a static state is not allowed in our manual. It is true that when we decide to go on we have no clue how that road will be like without all that used to nourish us and keep us safe and sane. As we step in new terrain we are unable to see where that road would take us but since there is no way to go back then on it is. Knowledge is what we earn if we are wise enough to see through experiences we go through. Regrets? Yeah, we may have some, but if we don’t make mistakes, how else will we learn about life’s secret ways of helping us mature and mellow? And if we stand still to saturate in the pain without trying to discern through the darkness then when will we ever grow? Turning heart-wrenching suffering into stepping stones as we move on in spite of it all builds our stamina and fosters our development. As for happiness, well life is not supposed to be happy. Happiness itself would be shallow and tasteless if not mixed with pain. True pleasure is in constant attempts to rise up again and bouncing back after each time we stumble and fall.