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Believe/Doubt

-       People should learn to celebrate breaks rather than fear and resist them

Believe

Breaks are the only way for the world to change, continue, and grow better. A chick must break his egg in order to emerge into the world. We must break from bad customs and habits in order to garner new, more beneficial ones. If we do not embrace breaks, they will only cause us pain and suffering. However, if we celebrate breaks, we can find joy in the moving on, the changes that we all must go through to become our own individual persons. If we resist breaking, we cannot develop to our full potential. We get caught up in a cycle that we are scared to break. We get trapped behind walls we are afraid to knock down. Breaking is what allows advancement. Water will not flow through a wall until it builds up enough to break it down. If we resist breaking too hard for too long, the situation will build up like water and eventually come crashing through the walls of resistance we have thrown up. The break will come. It will bring pain. It will flood our lives with a mess that we cannot easily clean up. We will be devastated. However, if we embrace and celebrate the process of breaking, it becomes much easier to cope with. We find less problems we cannot overcome. We, as a whole, become more equipped to deal with the natural, necessary process of breaking.

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