Tag: philosophy

He who suffers the most tends to become the strongest, he who is most disappointed tends to become the most prudent, he who is most deceived tends to become the most forewarned. In all these cases, however, the benefit does not materialize without a personal effort to transform the unpleasant experience, which begins with accepting and understanding it, accepting oneself as vulnerable and understanding what happened as a starting point. Man never evolves passively.

Every man always ends up enduring more than he thinks he can because, one day or another, the unexpected forces him to do so and forces him to adapt, allowing an unprecedented strength to emerge from within him under the stimulus of imperative necessity. Modern man, whose daily life seems to concatenate a succession of false certainties, conveying a misleading impression of security, hides from him the notion of his true vigor.

If the various biographies of revolt teach anything, it is that one can avoid society, contact and even life up to a certain point where the effort is not only pointless, but generates a very violent retaliation that would not otherwise happen. That is to say: in this world, there is a limit at which it is better to willingly accept certain inherent conditions of existence before they are imposed; it is better to accept them and work on them, rather than making an unnecessary effort to overcome them, knowing in advance that such an effort will fail.