The journey of life is the journey to discover and conquer greater and greater pains. Humans escape pain only to encounter greater ones -- that is what I believe to be the great journey of life. The journey along which ones gains the courage to face greater and greater pains. The greatest pain comes from death — the ultimate destination of all lifes, and the source of the greatest pain. Once you learned how to deal with that pain, nothing can bother you no more. The biggest of pain being the existential pain — the pain inherent in one’s state of existence and the voidness of meaning 一个人人生的高度，取决于他所面临的痛苦的深度 e.g. 为了中考而痛苦 --> 为了 IB 为了考大学而痛苦 --> 为了人生为了事业为了自己的自由而痛苦