Pain

I've been thinking a lot about pain. Pain is an interesting thing. There is physical pain and then there is emotional pain. It is my opinion that emotional pain is harder to bare then physical pain. It can be so hard to take that some people even resort to inducing physical pain in order to find respite from their emotional pain. People cut and burn themselves to release emotional energy, pain. When one is in emotional pain, it is the waiting for things to get better that becomes the real torture. The pain weighs on you. Chronic pain, both physical and emotional wears you down. However, pain is a blessing. It helps protect us and keeps us from destroying ourselves. In the irony of it all, pain is life preserving as opposed to life depleting. People who cannot feel physical pain, can batter their bodies to oblivion. The same with those who cannot feel emotional pain, they are self destructive. The real trick is finding a way to deal with the pain so as to turn a hindrance into a benefit.