Pain
PainPain, an acute mental or emotional discomfort, is experienced by
everyone many times during the course of his or her lives. This
discomfort to a person may be the result of slipping on a patch of ice
on the sidewalk, or may be the result of working hard on ones homework.
Whatever the cause, precautions can be taken to avoid pain, like wearing
a helmet while bicycling, but painful situations pop up all the time.
Pain during the coarse of ones life is inevitable. Misery, mental
suffering or extreme bodily suffering or discomfort: extreme
unhappiness, may not be present for everyone, and is more easily avoided
than pain. Misery usually occurs when many things go wrong, or if one
major thing in someone’s life goes wrong. These things are meaningful
and the misery involved is optional. An example of this could be someone
who goes to school, but doesn’t work, fails, and consequently ends up
without a job, and feels miserable. This situation could have been
avoided, if the person had worked hard at school. This demonstrates the
fact that misery can be due to major losses or failures. Therefore even
though insignificant causes of pain are inevitable, the things that mean
the most can be maintained, and misery is optional.
Pain can in some ways be prevented, with the help of preventative
measures like wearing a seat belt in a car, a wearing a helmet and pads
before going out biking. Even though these measures are applied, there
are some things that cannot be controlled, and luck also plays a factor
in a person encountering pain. First of all, every time a person goes
outside there is a chance that an accident will occur. If someone looses
control of their car on black ice, hits a tree and gets injured it
really is not their fault. One could say that this could be avoided by
not driving in winter, but this isn’t possible. People are active, and
as long as they are active there is always an element of risk involved.
If one makes dinner they may get burned, but food is needed for the
person’s survival. People take risks all the time and pain is somewhat
inevitable at different degrees. Some people have a high tolerance for
pain and seem to take more risks. Others are more cautious, but the
element of...
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