Comfort costs more

From me

Front-load the pain.

It costs more today but leads to less aggregate pain across your lifetime.

Time is neutral. It amplifies whatever trajectory you're already on. Confront the pain and time compounds that into resilience. Avoid it and time compounds that into bitterness, fear, or regret.

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From others

Jerzy Gregorek on the cost of the easy choice:

"Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life."

Source: The Happy Body (2009)

Pema Chödrön on avoidance:

"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know."

Source: When Things Fall Apart (1997)

For you

What are you keeping just quiet enough to ignore?