Word of the Week #321:
How do I deal with the pain, I was asked the other day.
I don’t quite remember my answer, but it was something casual… something on the lines of “I don’t feel pain.”
And, yeah, when you look past the obvious bravado, you can say that I do live a fairly happy life. Fairly pleasant. Fairly painless.
Even when I do experience pain, I’m usually able to resolve it well enough. I may not be immune to the pain, but I am quite resilient.
Is anyone immune to pain, really?
Should anyone be immune to pain?
When you think about it, what is pain? Why do we feel pain?
In my limited experience, pain is a sign of life. It originates from losing what you love or from yearning for what you seek, or a fear of either.
Can we live a life without pain? Would we even want to?
After all, why do we live but to love and to yearn?
So what do you do when it hurts? How do you deal with loss or yearning?
Well, to begin with, I do not fear pain the way many others seem to.
Of course, I wouldn’t say that I necessarily seek it out, but it is going to find me sooner or later, so why hide from it?
All you can you do is accept it, feel what you feel, and keep moving forward.
I always keep moving forward.
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