we're drowning in the trenches
we're choking on our indecision
is this pain we're feeling worth it
am i learning from anything at all?
sometimes i wonder if it were only easier
if i could let the currents drag me under
and take me out to the sparkling silver rivers
that lie just past the world i am not.
if
pain were the only reminder in a world of chaos to do right by one's
self and others, would we even pay attention? is pain anything? can it
be nothing?
I sat at my computer earlier today having a virtual
conversation with a virtual friend. I call him that simply because that
is what he is to me now. He's a bunch of words appearing on a computer
screen because he refuses to come to life for me, in every sense of the
word. Come to think of it he always did refuse. I'm not sure when he
died inside, but the funeral has long since been conducted and I am the
sole survivor mourning the loss. There is so much pain inside of him
that it radiates from his every touch, look, even typed word. He is, in
every essence, pain. It's all he knows. It's all he'll let himself
become now. It didn't used to bother me, it didn't used to literally
hurt me, but today, for the first time, it did. This got me thinking
because the way i have been taught pain is a lesson, something that
needs to be learned.
Think about it, we've been taught this way
since the very day we were born. When we did something wrong we were
slapped on the bottom or wrist. The pain taught us not to act up.
Growing out of my toddler days I had quite a large problem with sucking
my thumb. One day i was playing and fell and scraped up my entire thumb
leaving it bloody and scabbed. Later that same day I stuck my thumb in
my mouth because it was my routine and screamed in pain. I never sucked
my thumb again. The pain taught me that I shouldn't. Later my mother
had a problem with my brother and I jumping on the bed. It didn't
matter how many times I was scolded, I didn't listen. Not until I was
jumping on the bed and fell off and cut my face up on the window ledge
did I learn not to do it. I could go on and on with these examples, the
point is that pain is the greatest teacher in a human's life. We don't
like to hurt, or should I say, we shouldn't. It teaches us to be
careful, to be smart, to do the right thing.
It's not only
physical either. The mental pains are probably the worst. The problem
is that they can be deceiving as well. Emotional pain cuts to the very
heart of everything we are, to be human is to have emotions, and to have
those emotions pained is cataclysmic. It alters us, changes us deep
inside.
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