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We need pain in order to live. It sounds cruel, but is in fact the reason as to why the human race has evolved. Pain provides a limit as to what we can withstand. It sets a mark by which we acknowledge that there is something amiss and measures need to be implemented to ease the suffering.

There are two defined forms of pain that we endure. The physical and the mental. It can be argued as to which will can cause the most distress, but this will depend upon the individual and contributing factors.

Pain is a human reaction to the physical and emotional events that occur within our lifetime. Mankind has learned of pain through the ages due the the basic principle or trial and error. The known preconception of the level of pain involved prevents us from participating in certain actions that we know and understand to be detrimental. Unfortunately, this still does not prevent us from having to endure incidences that cause an insurmountable level of hurt.

How we understand and progress from a recorded painful event will define who we are. Moving on from the loss of a loved one, suffering a miscarriage, being involved in a car accident to being bullied and ending a relationship are all learning experiences through the intervention of pain. Overcoming these events can lead us to a better understanding and prepare us for any recurrence.

Sometimes a person will decide to end their own lives because of the continual pain that they are suffering. This does not make them "weak," but they act because they cannot escape. They feel that, at the time, they would rather feel nothing, because nothing would be better than the pain. A person sometimes attempts suicide merely as a cry for help. They need guidance, but cannot find it. The outcome may not be as the planned, just an attempt for attention, but it was their only available method in ceasing the pain.

There is no "good" pain, but we cannot live without it. To not know pain, is to not know when something is wrong. It is a natural occurrence to be experienced at varying levels throughout life, and some would argue a design flaw in mankind.

You will find that certain "pains" can be simply forgotten overnight, whereas others will remain in the subconscious, forever more, and never to be forgotten. We may never display the pain, or appear to have put the past behind us, but we know it is there, within ourselves.

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