<<According to you, why do we feel pain?>>
<<Mah, that's like asking, why do we breathe?>>
<<Because we are alive.>>
<<Exactly, we are alive, so we also feel pain.>>
<<What if we lived a life free of pain? How beautiful it would be...>>
<<You think so? I wouldn't be so sure.>>
<<Why not? Every day you hear nothing but people ranting about how great it would be to forget pain.>>
<<Fools, that's what I call them.>>
<<Don't you agree?>>
<<Of course not, goddamn it!>>
<<All right, but calm down!>>
<<Pain changes us, pushes us forward, makes us evolve.
It's thanks to not forgetting, that the species manages to evolve.>>
<<But that's not always the case is it? I mean, pain can also block us, annihilate us...>>
<<That's why I call them fools.
<<What do you mean?
<<How can you rejoice in what life gives you, if you don't understand the concept of pain? Don't you think it would lose its meaning, to live a life without obstacles?>>
<<...>>
<<Where would the growth be? Where would be the evolution?
What really stops everything is not pain.
<<What is it?>
<<Fear.>>
<<Fear?>
<<Yes, the fear of suffering, the fear of loving, the fear of accepting, or being accepted. Fear is the real obstacle in an individual's life.>>
<<But it is also said that from fear comes courage, no?>>
<<Of course it does, however you must be able to embrace that fear.>>
<<That seems easier said than done.>>
<<Nobody said it was easy.>>
<<So what? How do you deal with fear?>>
<<With faith.>>
<<Faith? Ahahahah, now we're talking about religion?>>
<<You don't understand the value of the word faith.>>
<<Why?>>
<<Faith, is not simply a word used to identify religions.
A person of faith, must believe above all in god, but he must also believe in his neighbor, even in himself!>>
<<Eh, I repeat, easier said than done.>>
<<Life itself, in the end, is nothing but a test of faith.
Only when you have faith, you can overcome obstacles that before seemed insurmountable.>>
<<Faith, huh?>>
<<Yeah.>>
<<Do you have faith?>>
<<Yes, although I have a long way to go. Do you? >>
<<Eh, I wouldn't know where to start...>>
<<Start to have faith in the others.>>
<<Who?>>
<<Those who love you, those who believe in you, even yourself when you feel you must.>>
<<You think it will work...? I don't know if it will work out...>>
<<If it didn't, it wouldn't be an act of faith in fact...>>

<<Brave in faith, the light remains, even when you can't see it.>>