Jacob Fuchs argues that people emerging from hardship should use that pain to build discipline, honesty, and humility instead of falling back into old habits. He says the goal is to let suffering reshape your identity so it becomes an origin story, not an ending.
If your life just completely went to shit, I have one piece of advice: don't waste it. Seriously. If you're going through the kind of pain that changes you, then fucking let it change you. Don't crawl through hell just to come out with the exact same habits, excuses, and bullshit that got you there. Use it. Build discipline from it. Build honesty from it. Build humility from it. Become so different that one day you look back at the chapter that almost destroyed you and realize, oh, that wasn't the ending, that was the fucking origin story.
