Quick Relief vs. True Resilience · Welcome the Hardships of Life
⁘ “How's your health and how do you respond to illness? How do you respond to physical discomfort? People race for symptomatic relief to numb down the sensations. It may or may not lead to healing and long-term resilience. You need to give your body the chance to respond. Your mind too needs discipline. Don't be so quick to leap for instant relief. Illness and discomfort are opportunities for our evolution, not disasters.”
How's your health and how do you respond to illness?
How do you respond to any physical discomfort for that matter?
Typically, especially in the modern context,
people race for symptomatic relief
in order to numb down the sensations,
whether or not it actually leads
to healing and your long-term resilience,
the growth of your immune system.
I do not subscribe to that.
And mind you, these thoughts
by no measure constitute medical advice.
Make your own decisions, but keep this in mind.
Unless you've grown in a sterile insulation chamber,
your body does have a functioning immune system
that typically can handle all sorts of minor ailments, infections,
but it's not going to happen in 15 minutes, right?
You need to give your body the chance
to respond to what's going on.
Your mind too needs discipline,
needs to be conditioned for resilience.
If at every little pinch of pain, uh oh,
I have to alleviate that,
otherwise I become dysfunctional,
then how fragile you have become,
and when the day comes that you do not have access
to your standard remedial measures that numb you down,
then how lost you are, dysfunctional, vulnerable,
ripped apart by the world in lack of your fallback plans.
Do not spoil the mind.
Discipline. Tolerance.
It's not all about comfort and pleasure.
It's about resilience, capacity development, your evolution
to a physically and mentally independent living entity.
Condition yourself to be well,
independent of external crutches.
Illness and discomfort are
opportunities for our evolution, not disasters.