The difference of course is that a rock doesn’t complain, it just takes it and becomes whatever it becomes. A human, on the other hand, tries to avoid the trials. A diamond also can’t revert back to being a rock, but humans can revert back to being ‘imperfect’.
How do you act on what you have learned about yourself? The answer to that question is the key to you being polished or not.
“The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.” – Chinese proverb
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>it’s that exact up and down that keeps us alive, it’s “on purpose”, so to speak. we need the lows and the highs in order to remind us that it’s about the struggle, and it’s about alive, and it’s not about anything else. it’s not about anything else at all.