I don't know how some people live their life without ever allowing themselves experience the full spectrum of emotions that life has to offer. They shelter themselves through fear. Why avoid pleasure and pain? Why fight so much? What are you fighting for?
How can one let such things allude one for so long? It's almost an insult. Life will break you. Life will rip you apart at the seams, at the very core. Shake you up until you don't know how what to do, what to make of it all, what to feel anymore.
The things that hurt you and nourish you will evolve you if you let it.
It's a shame to go through life asleep, completely unaware of what you can become when you hide sheepishly behind the fear of the unknown. Life can be so ugly, but it is also so beautiful at the same time. I think that in the moments when it hurts you the most, those are the moments where you have the most to gain.
If you let it.
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'One should always be drunk. That's the one thing that matters. In order not to feel the horrible burden of Time, which breaks your shoulders, and crushes you to the ground, one should be drunk without ceasing.
But on what? On wine, on poetry or on virtue, as it suits you. But get drunk.
And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace, on the green grass of a ditch, in the lonely gloom of your room, you wake up, the drunkenness already abated or completely gone, ask the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock, everything that flies or groans or rolls or sings or speaks, ask everything what time it is; and the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock will answer: 'Time to get drunk. In order not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk. Get drunk ceaselessly. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as it suits you.'
by Charles Baudelaire
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