PAIN

 I have been wondering why do we have the organs to experience this horrific experience of pain in the first place?

What role does it play? Can something only be taught by pain? Does this sound familiar to your heart?

Pain is the sensation that we fear ever since we were just animals, without a frontal/Prefrontal cortex. It is the single most intensely felt or experienced emotion in my limited experience. Happiness is usually limited to a level of ecstasy, however, pain knows no depths or boundaries. Rather I would go to the lengths of saying that PAIN CREATES DEPTH. Yes, as gruesome as it may sound, the third dimension of our life is given to us by our pain.

How we perceive all our life(big or small) events, that is more of a reflection of what we hold dear and deep in our subconscious. It brings out our moral/life values, gives us a choice to act for the world or against it. To build walls or break them. 

I am sure you are reminded of a very difficult lesson which you had to learn the hard way. it may be driving a vehicle, loaning a friend, or even staying away from fire or splinters. Every time we experience pain it is treated by the brain as a punishment for the immediate action preceding it. It isn't foolproof, not at all. But well, our mind considers itself as infallible(EGO). We just rely on our interpretation too blindly.

Some kinds of emotional losses have the ability to change someone completely. Watching every documentary on world war 2, minority humiliations, religious extremism- it all makes me wonder, how was so much pain endured? How did we not fear this outcome- situations of war, destruction, pandemics?

I watched Shindler's List the other day, well it moved me. It is all about how hate can inspire love and compassion of no bounds. How it changes a person so deeply, you can barely recognize them. It makes them-selfless-Egoless-one with the universe.

I believe the holocaust is an event that should be widely taught, any kind of regional conflict should be taught - Not with the aim to take sides, but with the aim to understand how we struggled for nothing. We were all eventually the same, but naming ourselves we tried to destroy ourselves and help ourselves at the same time which is insane. 

Like the colourful different leaves of a single plant, we want to get rid of the other and then miss it. Self created misery.

 

Believe me, next time you try to generalize a statement for girls vs boys, doctors vs non-doctors, one religion against another- remember the holocaust and how it started. It may have seemed a farfetched thought imagining holocaust and world wars, but it is still present in some corner of the world, where we saw "black lives mattered", Uighurs in China, and most recently Ukraine-Russia conflict. I want to bring to light this chaos created by our own egos trying to create a strong but miserable form of belonging by dividing and not uniting.

Human is the same in nature as the rest of the natural forces with their ups and downs, rise and fall, spring and fall. To separate out has been man's fantasy only to realize the exact opposite. Facing the pandemic with a looming danger of another world war, I get transported back into time- World war I. We seem to learn nothing and again the cyclic nature prevails- War, Peace, and well, we hope for something better.




 

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