death by a thousand cuts
"Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor" A few years ago I stumbled across this Alexis Carrel quote on Twitter. And instantly bookmarked it, not because I agreed with it fully. The Christian worldview differs from such an argument. Rather, I have always been fascinated by the passage where Jeremiah was asked to visit the potter's house. To see how a potter molds, shapes, and even reshapes the clay to make for himself a pot that seems fit. Death, taxes, and drawing Bayern Munich in the Champions League was all the suffering a stout Arsenal fan could ever imagine. Bayern gave a mouthful during every meeting, and being jobless, you mocked the system without paying taxes. Yet on that rare occasion when you cashed in on a crypto wave, section 194S smiled on me with an ominous laughter, licking away 30% in indirect tax. And death was a proposition I had to fight just once; at least that's what I thought. Suffering is suc...
