pain and/or suffering
Do you separate pain and suffering?
What if I say that pain doesn’t equal suffering? Pain is a fact while suffering is a choice.
For example athletes feel pain in their muscles after workout. Do they suffer? No. They feel pleasure and self-respect. This pain tells them they move the right way.
What happens next? Athletes grow up, become stronger and get honor and rewards. Haters would say these guys don’t deserve it, they got lucky, etc. Does it hurt? Yes. Is it painful? For sure. But athletes hear “you move the right way”.
Some people try to deny pain, but they suffer even more. They say “It doesn’t hurt”, but their face looks like lemon acid. So called “happy face”. Yeah, got it.
Pain relates to reality. It doesn’t depend on what people think about it. If a person doesn’t admit the pain it doesn’t disappear. Instead, the pain grows stronger and attracts attention.
Suffering is not real. It’s just a fiction. This is how our mind reacts to pain. We created it ourselves. Perhaps that’s why we easily accept suffering like something real. And deny pain. We want pain to be fiction.
Our life is like a movie in rewind. We’re living backwards. We deny reality and accept our mind’s reaction as the same reality.
Do you want to live that way? Did you know that life can be different?
photo Olga Erzamaeva @erzmv
