Pain can make u better or can rob u of your soul

Maria Popova share the following on her wonderful blog, the marginalian: This world is a school and we are its students. Each of us studies something as we pass through. Some people learn love, kindness. Others… abuse and brutality. But the best students are those who acquire generosity and compassion from their encounters with hardship and cruelty. The ones who choose not to inflict their suffering on to others. And what you learn is what you take with you to your grave. -Elif Shafak This reminds me of the lyrics to a song from my youth: "It's funny how pain can touch you. It either makes you better, or it robs you of your soul", which is also a central theme of my debut memoir Killing Justice.