Some words have a way to stick in your mind because they are so full of wisdom.
Recent correspondence with somebody reminded me of an interview with Alanis Morissette that aired on Musique Plus, the local all-music TV channel, when I was a teenager. At that time, the album Jagged Little Pill had just come out and even though I was not a big fan of her, I never forgot about the explanation she gave about the album title.
With a search on Google, I found it here.
The “jagged little pill” symbolizes difficult life experiences that eventually teach us a valuable lesson. “Jagged Little Pill is a lyric in ‘You Learn’. A lot of the premises that I write about on this record have to do with certain parts of my past and a lot of times when I’m immersed in something really difficult I don’t realize that there is a lesson in there somewhere. It’s only in retrospect that I’ll realize why I went through it. So the lyric following it is just ‘swallow it down, what a jagged little pill, it feels so good swimming in your stomach’. So, there is some sort of payoff and it might not be right away.”
I have had difficult experiences, some from companionship, but most of them prior to me starting on this endeavour. From a distance today, I realize how much they have shaped the person that I am, and for the better. However, as much as I consciously understand that I needed them and that I would be in a much worse position if everything would have been happy all the time, the pain that they caused me lingers in the back of my mind and does not want to entirely vanish.
Is there a pill for this one?
If you invest little in an enterprise, you don’t feel strongly if it succeeds or fails. The pain you experience with a failure relates to the investment you made. It is an uncomfortable fact of life that we – or at least me anyway – learn more from our failures than from our successes. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
Hello.its our choices and failures that make us who we actually are.pain and failures as much a part of us as much as we need food and water.we may consciously not desire for pains but subconsciously we always have the thirst for knowing ourselves deeply.and its true as per the saying : one step of failure takes you thousands of miles but a success takes you only 1 step ahead.