Remember that phrase from your high school gym days? Now its application to the current generation remains the same: if you want to better yourself, physically from their perspective, but spiritually as well: you will experience discomfort.
Your breathing becomes labored, your muscles ache with fatigue and fire as new demands are physically required by them. New physical movements--or a marked increase of physical movements--tax your body. It is uncomfortable to be sure, but in the back of our mind we know it is "good for us."
So to the spiritually and emotionally level does growth cost us. Our foundational precepts become inconsistent with new, challenging thoughts. We ponder and examine and question those ideals which we have held dear. Emotionally we become hurt as those who we thought would be ever-loving, suddenly fade away into the past as we are abandoned to our new fellowship. New names, new personalities, new thoughts, all clamor for our attention. Discomfort and uncertainty become our new fraility.
Rejection by friends and family shock us. New ideas replacing foundational precepts shock us. Romanticist's single truth is exploded by post-modern's multiple approaches to a new universal truth. Violent reactions from within us as we strive to simply grow: indeed, growth comes with a shock at all levels of our being.
But at the end of the day, after the tumultous experiences within and without--we rejoice that we found the fortitude within us to dare to grow regardless the cost.
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