Although we tend to recoil from pain, we also tend to cling to its causes.
It’s weird.
And it perpetuates pain.
It causes a state of lock down. We hate the recurring pain in our lives, but we do not change the root causes. In fact we repeat them, sometimes on purpose.
We don’t change the little things we can change. Because they are familiar and predictable.
We cling to life as we know it.
Because we know it.
Even if we hate it. Even if it frustrates or endangers us.
This lock down chokes off possibility, hinders vision, and creates an addiction to relief.
Not progress or growth. Not constructive, incremental change.
Relief.
The temporary superficial alleviation of pain through distraction.
