Enduring Pain

Every single time I make a crying face, for I've a cut on my finger or mistakenly hurt my foot, pat comes the reaction from my friend, "Well, that's just too li'l to worry. Let me make it  big enough for it to match your concern."

That triggers an argument over enduring pain. He reckons that any attention given to pain is kind of weakness and strength lies in enduring it. I always believe that acknowledging pain is as important as appreciating any pleasure. 

Being pained is an important trait of us. Not getting into the heart-aches, if only physical pain is being considered about since that is more or less common way for most of us, it can be considered as biological alarm that the body isn't normal. Imagine a situation when you can't feel the pain when the hand is cut and blood is gushing out. Or you touch the flame of the burning candle and don't feel the burn. What makes you to rush for a bandage to  or withdraw your finger to save them from further damage. Simplifying it, pain is to save you.

The inability to feel pain is named and categorized under medical science, and though rarely, some humans are born with it. Now, of the rest of the larger and luckier lot, there is another syndrome of "ignoring pain in the name of enduring it" or "getting accustomed to pain that it can hurt no longer". In both these cases, the impulsive reactions that pain triggers are lost and hence can lead to dangerous consequences. If it can't pain you or you don't react to the pain it causes you, then "it" however minute can have serious repercussions.

Well, this is not to put my friend entirely on the wrong end. Losing sleep over a pimple isn't healthy either. Acknowledging pain and making sure that it is not overrated is the key, at least to physical pain.

How about the other aches? Hmmm... that can't be wrapped up in few lines!