01/18/25
Cure of Pain is In Pain Itself
Accompanying Soundtrack: Cure for Pain by Morphine
I’m not sure how this saying came to me, or how exactly I came to this conclusion. It must have been because I was thinking about the folktale of the crow in the desert, dying of thirst but stumbles upon a bottle of poison. In order to quench the pain of thirst, the crow chooses to engulf the pain of poison. Cure for Pain Is in Pain Itself.
Or maybe I was thinking about my grandma’s advice: when experiencing pain in one part of the body, to squeeze on the pressure points of on your palm. That way, the pain of the pressure points being activated will mask the other pain you are feeling. Cure for Pain Is in Pain Itself.
Or maybe I was thinking of people who engage in BDSM, where the controlled and willingly accepted pain is the cure for a deeper psychological pain. Cure for Pain Is in Pain Itself.
The cure for pain isn’t in pleasure. Pleasure is only a distraction, a temporary relief, it’s not the antidote. If anything, it gets you further and further away from the cure. You will never be cured if you keep looking for pleasure. Because pleasure is short-lived, whereas pain lingers, it stays. People go their whole lives searching for the same feeling of pleasure they once felt, but you never have to search for all the past pain you felt. The pain endured remain etched in memory, from your first heartbreak to the sting of a paper cut.
Which is why, Cure for Pain Is in Pain Itself.