no pain no gain

[cacian]

True?
False?
Sorry what 's that again?

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[osho]

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Old adage has lost their sheen and we are not living in an age of the wheel and this is the age of the internet and we have been successful in reengineering work processes and redefined work ethics. Today even our personal values, emotional quotients and swings of passion are streaming in different directions. Today we want to gain without pain, madam. The world is different from the day we have matured ourselves into particular lines of thoughts. The age of the Internet that has clustered us into one organic whole. Ideas run, fly cutting edges, margins bordered by geographies, cultures and political thoughts. Today whether you live in the west or the Middle East or the southeast you are likely to bump into each other's opinions and in that course we opinionate ourselves and stuff our midst with rubbish.

Let us outlive old adages and reinvent new maxims or else we will be outrun by those who trigger the tempo

[cacian]

osho the word adage is an interesting one.
I had to look it up because I misread it as:
''add age'' as in what an antiquarian does to furniture to give it more age.
I agree that modern age is about consumerism and what one must get and not what one must not.
There is no Nos only Yesses for fear the world might sound hollow or insignificant.
No pain no gain is as a funny one because its twists what could have been but could no longer.
Physical pain for attainment sake is been rebuffed onto a computer generated myth where the only physical pain is the mental one.
At the click of a button behind/before a screen you can have it all.
Food life style and games where the only pain is the cost of one's pocket.

[YesNo]

I don't think there's a correlation between pain and gain, but I suspect if the gains cost too much pain, they may not be worth it and we should do something else. Life seems like a windfall. We just don't always get what we want.

[cacian]

I don't think there's a correlation between pain and gain, but I suspect if the gains cost too much pain, they may not be worth it and we should do something else. Life seems like a windfall. We just don't always get what we want.

Hi YesNo interesting post.
I totally agree that pain and gain are two very separate issues because the contirbutors to both these concepts are very separate. One can gain without paion and one can pain without gain.
One can learn to avoid pain and be without gaining anything either.
I always relate gaining to some kind of competition like the Olympics.
Pain is also tricky because it can be self inflicted.
The question tou your post is this:
Isn't what we get that we don't want something we all contributed towards unconsciously or not?

[YesNo]

Isn't what we get that we don't want something we all contributed towards unconsciously or not?

Oh, yes, I would agree with that. We have a lot of subconscious agendas that we are fulfilling to our current misery. The problem is how to become conscious of them enough to be able to make a choice and change them.