Worth suffering for....

I never learned how to play the guitar.
I always wanted to but when my fingers got sore from holding down the strings I gave up. The truth is I never wanted to suffer for it.

Seeing this quote float around Facebook:
Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you - you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for." - Bob Marley

I apply this not just to people but to what we do in our lives, be it dancing, painting, glass mosaic or playing an instrument our individual careers dictate the amount of suffering we are willing to endure.

Fact is, I am not a fan of suffering, the Buddhist believe that there are four noble truths, they are:
1, There is suffering
2. Attachment causes suffering
3. Suffering can end.
4. There is a path to end suffering.

I'm not teaching suffering or Buddhism, I'm just getting to a point.

Truth is I know when I go out hiking I will suffer two days after my hike with pain in my knees. However I balance, the beauty of the hike- over the pain in my knees, and see which one will win.
The action of doing something usually always wins.

I don't like to suffer, perhaps I'm on the path.

Even though I do not play the guitar I am still attached to the idea of wanting to play and this, with out touching a single string causes suffering, perhaps I'm not on the path.

When I see a musician playing the guitar my heart leaps, so soothing is the sound to my soul, it vibrates the insides of my heart making me smile.

I have often thought, this process of causing a physical reaction in another human being, by just stroking strings stretched over wood, is the reason we have rock stars.

After all, it can't just be their looks, and from what I hear their personalities are not so great either, but the talent to touch two, three, or even ten thousand souls in one concert must be some sort of miracle.

We hold them up as idols, stars, untouchables, royalty.

All because they can play and sing into our souls. I feel they have the ability to heal.
Think about it, you are driving down the rode and you are feeling crappy, then a really good song you love comes on the radio...now you're feeling great.

Some of these musical artists do not understand the what, or why of their success.

I believe it's because they dull their senses with alcohol or drugs because their suffering is too great.
Maybe this is the down side and they do not get to feel the return of love being sent to them from their audience for their gifts.

I suffer while doing my mosaics, cutting my fingers over and over.

I sing to the music from the rock stars that move me most, and perhaps I'll pick up the guitar once again and suffer to play.

What will you suffer for, today?

May you never have to suffer to feel the love and peace I send you,
Janice