Times Of Swaziland: NO PAIN, NO GAIN

NO PAIN, NO GAIN
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The Editor on 12/02/2019 00:17:00


Sir,
We have sadly become a generation that is luxury-oriented, glory seeking and a
pain-avoiding youth. We are infinitely involved hand and arm in the struggle for
the most envied good life. When you turn a corner, one overhears the so
ear-inviting talk of good life. We so dearly want to claim and possess the most
lucrative and exorbitant materialism.
People are hustling and bustling for what they call a pain-free life, forgetting
that you cannot really gain something without forgoing the other. Forgoing
something in the quest to achieve another is painful.
When we speak of gaining, there has to be an opportunity cost, so say
economists. This sophisticated, end-seeking generation seems to have long
forgotten or at worst, not informed that pain and gain are twins that are
impossible to separate. Going for your desired goals while forgoing the social
nitty-gritty really hurts.
Change comes with pain but this pain later becomes a gain. Endure the pain and
make a difference. It is true that a delay is not a denial.
Achievement
When the achievement of our goals is delayed, it does not meant that they are
impossible to reach, but it is just that the ideal time for their achievement
has not yet come or it just indicates that we need to fully exhaust our efforts
so we can realise them.
Waiting is painful, but there is no becoming without the waiting. Waiting for it
is worth it! Our mothers are made to wait for a back-breaking and tiring nine
months so they can bear the offspring, their gain. Gain is not a matter of
unnecessary haste.
Haste makes waste not gain. Let us learn to wait, it’s worth it. “The
stretching of your faith is immediate pain that results in ultimate gain. It is
in the waiting that we become who we want to become,” says Mandy Hale.
K Hlophe