“Growing pains” are a necessary and ongoing experience throughout most people’s life. Experiencing pain, learning from pain, dealing with it and courageously self-affirming life in-spite-of the negation of pain invites growth. Life’s meaning is oddly found in life’s negative experiences. For Nietzsche “it is wrong to speak of ‘will to existence’ or even of ‘will to life’; one must speak of ‘will to power,’ i.e., to more life.” The relationship between enduring pain and growth go hand-in-hand for the advancement of the human spirit.” - Randy Herring