@melissaannmariee: sometimes you just have to experience short term pain so that you don’t experience long term unhappiness. sheesh. huge growing moment for me. as humans we want to avoid pain and suffering as much as possible. it’s not normal for us to choose the thing that hurts us the most. but sometimes that’s the choice we need to make in order to grow into the person we’re meant to be and experience the life we were meant to experience. pain & hurt means you’re growing, shaping, and shifting.