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Pain. One of the many unifiers of Humanity.
Professionally, as a nurse, I have inflicted my fair share of physical pain in the pursuit of healing. I have never told a patient “This won’t hurt a bit” when I damn well knew it would. Honesty is a key component of every relationship — however brief.
On a personal level, we all know — at least subconsciously — we will have to endure pain in Our Life. It’s part of the program. No one gets away without this. Some people hide theirs better or have more resources to manage it, or just plan seem to be blessed by The Universe. But rest assured — Everyone. Has. Pain.
In fact, the driving force, the greatest of Human ambitions seems to focus on finding relief for each Human’s Personal Chest Of Pain. We will drag it along with us where ever we go — adding or subtracting from its contents marginally if at all. We have even culturally named our emotional pain and if you say this one word — every Human knows exactly what pain you are describing.
Baggage.
We think we can hand off Our Pain to others. We think someone, somewhere out there has The Cure by which we make Our Pain disappear. We think if we take the advice of experts who seem to have their shit together we will be able to vanquish Our Pain. And never, ever have to have pain again.
