Difficult to discern.

[thefrescakid]

Brightly-colored leaves become kaleidoscopic cyclones that crunch, crisp as the fall breeze, beneath the tires on the winding road by the park. The young man in the car ahead of me, seasonably lackadaisical, is going to drop off his car, after which we will go to lunch. His hand rests on the window and he nods in time to music, with nothing more to

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[veritology]

Interesting question. Which path is better, care-free but without direction, or painful but with a path towards something better? In the end, what are we without our memories of adversity conquered? We'd soon grow shallow and easy to bruise, because without some sort of hardening in our lives, the littlest brushes cause massive bruises.

[thefrescakid]

Yeah. I've got my memories, whether I want them or not.

[boredsoldier]

What one phrase has helped me through the very roughest times in my life?

"The pain eventually ends"

By death or time. The pain eventually ends.

[thefrescakid]

That's true, and not as fatalistic as it might at first seem.

[veritology]

It may not be fatalistic all the time. But when lived by, it tends to result in people thinking of life as something only to be survived, not necessarily lived.