Many people think that pain comes from a lack of ability, but the deeper reason is often that cognition leads reality. When you start to see greater possibilities and a more ideal life, you can no longer be satisfied with the original state; however, the resources, abilities, and position in reality are still insufficient to support you in reaching that goal. Therefore, the gap between ideals and reality becomes the source of anxiety and torment. What truly makes people uncomfortable is not the inability to see hope, but seeing hope and still having to go through a long period of accumulation. So, some pain is not failure, but the tension generated when life stretches toward higher possibilities. The most dangerous state for a person is not temporary incapability, but not knowing where they want to go; when pain comes from the distance between ideals and reality, it at least indicates that you are still growing upward, not sinking downward.