There really is no point in leaning into avoidable pain. Pain does not "make you stronger". Pain is not "beauty". These are all bullshit tropes invented by abusers to keep people from questioning things.
I agree with you, unnecessary pain is not virtue. But pain does indeed make you stronger, or it can make you bitter, or depressed, or insane. How you choose to work through the inevitable pain you will face is what determines if it makes you stronger or not.
It's easy to hand wave the question of pain away, but much wiser men than you and I have arrived at very different conclusions than you suggest.
It's easy to hand wave the question of pain away, but much wiser men than you and I have arrived at very different conclusions than you suggest.