painless pain isn't pain...

pain, pain could be defined easily. don’t you trust me; check google. oh, it only tells you about physical pain. so is there anything else? yes, there is emotional pain, short term pain, long term pain, temporary pain and permanent pain are few of the types. still, the main are emotional and physical. could physical & emotional pain be classified into something else?

the way i look it, sensitivity and tolerance are two major factors which could help us in the systematic categorization. for instance; i have low sensitivity for physical pain while high sensitivity for emotional pain. at the other hand i have high tolerance for physical pain but low tolerance for emotional pain.

personally, i love the sweet pain physical and emotional both. i love the pain after exercise, the pain after getting needled. i hate pain though, i hate my headaches. i hate toothaches. i have just realized i hate most of the aches and pains except those sweet pains. guess, i gotta be more strong but i guess i already withstand my pains a lot; just that i don’t like them.

the quotient of sensitivity and tolerance differs from man to man, woman to woman. it’s a general belief that men have more endurance for physical pain than emotional and it’s just opposite for women. it may be true for most but it is surely not true for all. men are as prone to feel emotional pain as women.

they might not be too exposed to certain situations where they could express it freely that they have emotional pain. as they are considered to be or supposed to be stronger sex. they are not more stronger than women to overcome emotional pain or physical pain. men and women both are human first and are equally prone to any kind of pain.

one of the biggest icon of emotional pain in india was a man, named devdas. and as far as physical pain goes, given a chance to any man if he would rather take menstrual cycle in exchange of emotional pain resistance shield. you know what his answer would be, don’t ya? they sure can hide it pretty well, though.

any woman is better at hiding facts as long as she is not hurt physically,  she wants to expose part of her personality where she feels pain; she cries, cribs, complains. when a woman is hurt emotionally she can hide it beneath the mountains of emotions. while a man can hide physical pain easily but give him a chance to expose his emotional part and you can see his weak side rather easily.

so, at this point in time how could i define emotional and physical pain? um… lemme try. they both have few similarities and few differences. on the similarity front both hurts when you get them and on dissimilarity front physical pain goes away with the time, emotional pain might stay for forever. medicine, cure and doctors can heal you physical pain but to heal the emotional pain you need love and care.

i have completed roughly 30-40% of my expected stay on planet earth and i have seen and experienced whatever i could have while growing up to this age. though, i believe that age is just as a number as status is geography . still, it’s one of those things which are irreversible; technically.

i have met some very strong men and women and some very weak men and women. i have also met some people who are average, i would say most of the men and women i met fall into this category. well, what distinguish some of them is their m0menteneous resistive power to withstand pain, physical and emotional both.

look around you and you can find some guys from each category. i just have a small favor to ask you, never-ever hurt your friends at the point where you know it will hurt them, if you do it when what’s the need of enemies. leave somethings to the enemies. i ask for it because i have ample experience of it, that too, first hand.

if your enemy stabs you in the chest and your friends hits you with a stick, your friend’s assault will hurt you more; emotionally and your enemy’s assault will hurt you more physically. you know physical pain goes away easily but not the emotional pain.

i think it describes the difference clearly between emotional and physical pain. oh before i leave, i would tell you the funny incident that gave me the idea for this post’s name. one day i was in hospital for routine check-up and i heard a doctor saying “sir ji don’t worry, when we give an injection with this gun. the pain becomes painless.” well, it might be true, i never got a shot from such injection gun but i still believe “painless pain isn’t pain”…