The School of Suffering Graduates Exceptional Scholars

"The School of Suffering Graduates Exceptional Scholars"

I’ll take it a step further,

The trials and suffering you undertake are meant to ratify you, not hold you under. But I need you to focus on one very important word in the above quote. The word I want you to focus on is: GRADUATES. Ole Webster defines graduate as: to pass from one stage of experience, proficiency, or prestige to a usually higher one. Also, what does ratify mean? I’m glad you asked, ratify means “to make valid”. So how does this all coenside with one another? Simple, too many people are attending the school

of suffering without obtaining their degree. Instead, many wallow in their circumstance for so long that they start to identify their suffering with their identity. Thus, becoming what is known as a permavictim. So what was supposed to be used to level them up, help them grow, and even validate their strength has been turned into an ever growing pit. This pit grows ever easier to fall into as society lifts up the victim instead of the victor. Because, it’s too easy to give a sob story, get a few likes, rinse, and repeat but that just takes me to another quote: “Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change”-Jesse Jackson. So my question to you is: Are you seeking to graduate from life’s trials or will you squander what was meant to refine you?

-Alex Franks