The other day I was having a painful
conversation with my friend. No, not literally "painful" but a conversation about
living life with pain. I told him how boring life would be if we didn’t suffer
pain. He nodded his head in agreement. Pain is one of the many feelings that we human beings have and a
deficiency in it, just like in any one of the feelings, will make us feel so
incomplete. I agree nobody like suffering from pain but just think how boring
life would be if we didn’t feel pain.
“Pain is not just a feeling; it is an emotion, a very strong one.” – Tariq Akhtar
Imagine this… you are crossing the road, a
speeding car comes by and knock you down. You lay there with fractured bones
and a smile on your face. Yes, a smile on your face! Because there’s no pain,
so no point of crying out with ‘pain’. Or imagine this… you are playing a game
of soccer and a player of your opponent team tackles you and you glidingly fall
to the ground. You badly scratched your arms and legs; blood is oozing out of
your limbs and you are ‘okay’ with it. Because you do not feel pain! Boring
yeah? Still not convinced? OK – I agree that you would love to have a life
without pain where you badly hurt yourself and you feel nothing.
Now let’s have a different picture here. You
are out on a date with your girl at the garden (ahem!) that is filled with
sweet-smelling flowers. She likes roses: the red ones! You forgot to bring one
along with you but you see there are shrubs of roses in the garden. In order to
impress her you pick one, or a bunch of them, but you forgot to take their
thorns off. Now when you gift them to your girl, the thorns prick her soft
hands but there’s nothing that happened to her. Now let’s look it differently.
After you gave her the roses and the thorns prick her hand and blood starts
flowing, she cries out loud as she’s experiencing pain. Now you have a good
chance to hold her hands and console her, isn’t it? So you see how important is
pain and how it can lead to romance? ;)
Alright, the above example was just for
lovebirds: exclusive! But under normal conditions pain is really not painful. I
mean it is painful but it is still a pleasure to suffer from pain. It’s all in
the psyche – the way you perceive it. If you want to feel pain as painful then
it will be painful but if you try to find pleasure in your pain then you wouldn’t
really feel the pain. Try it and let me know! :)
P.S. This blog post was completely written
at the branch of ICICI bank while I was waiting my turn to talk to the
Privilege Banking representative.
