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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 physical pain, whether inflicted or received, is the cure for a deeper psychological pain. Cure for Pain Is in Pain Itself.
Or maybe I was remembering how, as a kid, I was terrified of getting shots at the doctor’s office. But later, I’d beg my parents to take me. Because pain felt different when I chose it. Somehow, it was bearable if I asked for it. The 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.