The truth that many people never understand, until its too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt. – Thomas Merton

Jun actually found this one. We got into a little discussion about it, about like what it is trying to say or what it means or how we are supposed to read it. I love those kind of talks. Anyways, here’s pretty much what we got out of it.

We often realize too late that when we stuff the negative emotions inside of us and don’t deal with our problems or our roadblocks, the emotions don’t just go away. It builds up and builds up inside us and any little instance…an argument, something happening that reminds us, any little seemingly unimportant event…it can end up that we hurt ourselves because we did not yet deal with the initial problem. Haha. Did I translate that to make it easier or did I just make it harder? Hehe.

Maybe, to put it very simply….a problem does not go away just because we ignore the problem. It must be fixed or the problem will keep coming back. How’s that?

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