This is so so relevant in life for everyone.
When we hit resistance or difficulty in life, we hold back; we dun give our all because we fear failure, we fear we can’t make it, we aren’t good enough – and so we gave a half effort, hoping to that it is enough, hoping that we can test the water to gauge if how far we are from overcoming the obstacle; not to clear the barrier…. but just to see how far we are from overcoming it.
As a result, what we get is pain, sense of defeat, disappointment and the very thing we are afraid of = failure.
In life, we need to “punch through it”, punch through the pain, shake off the pain and carry on. And thats what life is about.
And it is through overcoming the little bit of pain, that we come out stronger. That little bit of pain IS NOTHING compared to the pain if you only gave half effort; if you only hold back in your punch when you are anticipating the pain and trying to minimise that pain – unknowingly doubling or tripling the amount of pain you have to endure.
Some people in life, never punch through certain resistance in life. They gave 50% effort and gotten 100% pain with no results. They try and try again… 60%… 70%… 80%… and then they gave up. They go back to 50%… and then 40%… 30%… finally they just stay stagnant, depressed and surrendered. Once in a while, they brave up some hope and gave another 50%… but with every 50%, they receive 100% pain. With every attempt, they receive the full feedback of the suffering.
Why keep “TRYING” when you can just “DO”. You could have achieve a 100% with 50% pain. But instead, we do 10 x 50% and receive 1000% pain.
How do you carry on when the knuckles are bruised and the prickling pain accompanying all touches? And so now you know why people get into depression and inaction? Its not because they are weak, its just because they had already receive 1000%, 2000% or even 10000% in accumulated pain. The regret of lack of “commitment” taints every single thought and action.
So.. Punch through, shake it off and move on.
Don’t get trapped in a cycle of half efforts and pain.