Choose your suffering

For the big and small, you choose most of your suffering. And you are choosing all the time.

You are human, you have to suffer. You will not be joyful all the time. You wouldn’t even be human if you could be.

Do you want to feel bad because you procrastinated or because the work you are doing is not coming out at as high a quality as you imagined?

Do you want to feel bad because you had a tough conversation or because you didn’t?

Do you want to suffer through the “dynamic” but unknown and uncertain or through the “boring” but stable?

Do you want to suffer as the lame, loyal geek or the dishonest but cool player

Do you want to suffer through a perceived slight or suffer through losing your cool

Do you want to suffer through the groggy, early morning workout or from living the day knowing you missed it?

Suffer toward the things you value, not away from them.