A brief YouTube #shorts monologue (uploaded by Daniel Borschel) reflecting on the tension between "gentleness" and the hardship required to achieve it. The speaker emphasizes that personal gentleness often follows difficult, even violent, internal struggle and that there are "no shortcuts" to such growth.
My favorite quote right now is, no one will understand the violence it took to become this gentle. Because I can resonate with it, and I think at some point we all can. On the other side of our gentleness is the polarity and that we can find that. There's no shortcuts. We have to go through something to get what we want.
