I had a roommate that didn’t believe pain had any business with life. What do you think? I didn’t contradict him seeing I wasn’t going to convince him otherwise.
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If it weren’t for pain, when you put your hand on a hot stove you wouldn’t remove it and so would burn. Pain can teach you and protect you.
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It’s a very rare life that doesn’t encounter at least some intense pain during its time on earth. Maybe some day that will change, but for now we have to endure.
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Doesn’t need to be a physical pain. Pain comes in many forms
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Yes. Absolutely. I’ve learned that the mind can suffer quite a bit over the years.
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Exactly. If you didn’t feel pain your tissues would be damaged, and you wouldn’t know about it. Probably all animals feel pain because it’s an evolutionary advantage.
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Is it necessary? No. Is it damn near inevitable to have some in a life that stretches many years? Yes.
I think there is some truth that if you didn’t know pain, you wouldn’t have anything to compare happiness to, but I don’t subscribe to the notion that you have to have lots of pain to enjoy life. They are not some balance that needs to be kept. The truth is that many people suffer lots of pain throughout their life while others have comparatively little.
Much of philosophy annoys me to be frank. They are often cute little phrases without true substance. It often does not apply practically to life. Some suffer needlessly, while others enjoy significantly more happiness. This is the truth of life.
I was the happiest child and I’d never known pain.
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I can relate to that @Jinx
Actually can relate to many of your posts
My mother and my dad too always took care of me when I was young. Never let anything bad happen. I knew of a boo boo or a cut or that kinda pain. But hardly knew of dissatisfaction or disappointment early on in my life. It’s hard for this feeling to last much past the first ten years of your life I’d say unless your some kind of prince to a throne or something…. Not in our society.
I’d say the first ten years of my life…were a piece of cake. But the last 22 have been pretty difficult at times. Thanks 
Ask a 10 year old cancer patient if he/she believes the pain they are suffering through is going to be balanced out for them later. It’s just not true.
We can’t discuss this without getting into religion, but we either believe that everything has meaning or nothing does. That there is a reason for everything or that it is completely random. We think that by denying god’s existence or the existence of a higher power that we are recognizing and empathizing with the suffering of others, but in reality we are just assuming that we have it all figured out and know better than the universe that brought us into existence in the first place. It is all kept in balance. The existence of good defines its opposite. One can’t exist without the other. Some suffer more and some suffer less, nobody said it was fair but there is a reason for it. All things balance themselves in the end.
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We are going to have to agree to disagree, since we can’t get into religion. My sister died of cancer in her early 30’s. She had to have a leg removed early on and had to hobble around on an prosthetic. Is that fair? Will she be rewarded for that? I personally don’t think so. It’s just the way life is.
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pain is absolutely necessary in life, it IS life. without pain you have nothing. pain and its endurance can be accounted to being the greatest and most fruitful factor in ones life. Every great thing is bred out of pain, pain heals, and forces the ugly truths upon you. pain is inevitable, and is to be embraced and longed for, due to the fruit it bears. to hate pain is to hate life and to waste the gifts it provides. only when we are broken and in crumbs can we build ourselves to however we want to be. pain is sacrifice, and without such things, there is no true life, and if there is such a life devoid of all pain, it is not worth living.
Each of us will no doubt experience pain in our lives. This could be in the form of emotional, physical, or psychological pain. We fall down and hurt ourselves, our feelings get hurt, we face disappointments, disease, etc. It is part of life.This pain is unavoidable, but the suffering associated with it is optional. Why? Because if we accept the fact that each and every single one of us will experience pain at some point in our lives, we do not have the expectation to be pain-free. We also do not spend countless hours focusing on that pain and making the situation worse. That causes needless suffering.
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nobody said life was fair, but anything can be seen as good and fair even what isn’t. I by no intention mean to sound flippant in any way, but if your dear sister had such wicked things happen to her do you not think it is only fair she is alleviated from her suffering? or would you rather she still hop around on a prosthetic battling cancer on and off?
I didn’t say that it was fair or that she will be rewarded. I just said that the equation balances itself. The time we get isn’t guaranteed. Every day is a gift. The greatest tragedy is taking life for granted. I could be bitter about my mind failing me, but it is life expressing itself in this way. It’s like a flame, it dances for a while, gives off its light, then disappears. The flame doesn’t go anywhere, it comes into balance with its environment. It becomes its environment. The environment becomes hot because of the flame. The equation balances itself.
from dust, to dust.
I would prefer she never got cancer in the first place, which was my whole point. Life is not some cosmic balancing act between pain and happiness. It’s usually not fair.
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