Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.
The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both wrestle with this experience of exile. They share an acute, even excruciating sensitivity to the state of separation and isolation, and both actively seek a way to overcome it, to transcend it, or at least to make the pain go away. What is the pain of being human? It's the condition of being suspended between two worlds and being unable to fully enter into either.
The athlete knows the day will never come when he wakes up pain-free. He has to play hurt.
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