What is Pain : The Young India

Kartikey Sehgal

“Happiness will not come from happiness; but only from pain. We know the value of standing in shade only after roaming in the hot day sun.”
–Atharva Veda

Pain is fun. Pain is natural. Pain is the word given to describe a feeling that is not like happiness. Humans crave pain. Often they are not able to understand the true nature of pain and hence they give in to drugs and sadism. To know pain is to understand a simple duality.

You know about night because of the day. In summers you think of winters and in winters you think of warmth.

Happiness is different from pain but pain can be a happy experience. It can heal you and make you stronger. And I say again, humans crave pain.

When you walk barefoot on hard and cold rocks you feel pain. When you walk alone on a lonesome night and cry you feel pain. This is the nature of pain. It exists to remind you of the times you didn’t remember it. So the next time you are happy you remember it and be prepared for it. Pain is a reminder of individuality. Of the uniqueness of an individual that lives and functions in a community. So that the next time you are in a group, you will remember your individuality.

Some people are scared of pain so they give themselves pain. Better I control pain than the other way around, they feel. They wait for pain and they shy away from happiness because it would be followed by pain. They become unhealthy masochists. Such people confuse fear with pain. Pain becomes fear for them. Separation from a friend for them is not pain but fear.

There is pain in the open green meadows for once an army lay dead in it. For farmers were moved or killed by governments. For lovers were separated here.

There is pain in nature for it is destructible. For you will not be by its side forever. For you wish your child would be here to see it.

The passing of sunrise and sunset reminds you of your time on earth. With the pleasure, there is the pain.

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