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We spend our lives trying not to hurt. But every time you avoid sorrow, you also mute your capacity for joy. What if the price of deep happiness has always been a heart that can break?

Pain isn’t proof that something’s gone wrong—it’s proof that something has mattered. The depth of your sorrow is the measure of your love. Every joy you’ve ever known was tied to something fragile: your youth, your parents, your children, your health, your hopes. You grieve because those things were real, and you loved them as they were passing through your hands.

To feel sorrow is not to fail at life—it’s to live close to the truth of it. Joy and sorrow are twin recognitions of value. The more awake you are to one, the more capable you become of the other.