PITY IS POISON : How Self-Victimization Sabotages Your Strength and How to Cure the Addiction

PITY IS POISON

You have been told that because you hurt, you are weak. That is a lie.

Your wounds are not your identity. They are part of your curriculum.

The goal of life is not to avoid every pain. The goal is to become wise enough, courageous enough and disciplined enough to meet the pain you cannot avoid without surrendering your soul to it.

Stop waiting for a world that never wounds you. Build a spirit that can heal.

Stop asking for permission to rise.

Break the chains of pity with the clang of action. Grieve what must be grieved. Repair what can be repaired. Release what cannot be recovered. Learn. Build. Serve. Love. Begin again.

The world does not need another permanent victim.

It needs people who have suffered and chosen not to become prisoners of their suffering.

Do not drink the poison.

Drink the fire.

Now, go.