The Right Kind of Hurt

It is never fun to inflict pain on someone, even if you know it’s a consequence of doing the right thing.

It helps to remember that everyone is already in pain one way or another. Maybe your courage, honesty, and clarity will finally help them find the right kind – the root pain they can focus on to resolve a lot of other, secondary ills.

There are many flavors of hurt, and to keep growing, we need to swallow the right bitter pill at the right time. It’s not easy to be a doctor when you know the medicine tastes bad, but if we choose the potions we hand one another to the best of our ability, at least we can take comfort in having tried our best at treating the disease rather than the symptoms.

Nik

Niklas Göke writes for dreamers, doers, and unbroken optimists. A self-taught writer with more than a decade of experience, Nik has published over 2,000 articles. His work has attracted tens of millions of readers and been featured in places like Business Insider, CNBC, Lifehacker, and many others. Nik has self-published 2 books thus far, most recently 2-Minute Pep Talks. Outside of his day job and daily blog, Nik loves reading, video games, and pizza, which he eats plenty a slice of in Munich, Germany, where he resides.