Painful Pleasure

Painful Pleasure

Humans are fragile and tend to crack when we faced difficulties at times. It’s in our nature that we choose a path that strays away from pain. But pain isn't necessarily bad at all times. Pain is just a feeling that we, humans experience, both emotionally and physically. Truth be told, pain and pleasure have a very close relationship. If you want to taste the sweet nectar from the bees' hive, you must endure the sting from an army of bees. Pain will lead you to pleasure if you are willing to work for it, change for the betterment and get up each time you fall.

To master pain, sometimes you need to apply the art of 'i-don’t-care'. How do you think those Shaolin monks are able to withstand all those inhumane pressure on their body? They channel all the pain from the source to the 'i-don’t-care'-care' area. Genuine grandmasters call this phenomenon as finding your inner peace or master your senses. It's possible to apply it and you will gain a temporary time of trance. The art of 'i-don’t-care' is basically ignoring your dilemmas and have time for yourself. So, you can do whatever you like, to get out of pain and let time or luck to solve the problems for you because ignorance is bliss. It can be useful at times and save one's life. Imagine you are on the edge of a building's top platform. You had just being dumped by your loved ones or you had a really rough day. Before you take another step to hell, use the art of 'i-don't-care'. Say to yourself, “I don't care about her anymore. I got a four legged bitch to worry about. I don't need a two legged bitch." All the shoulds, coulds or woulds will not matter anymore. Salvage what you can and move on with your life.

To cope with pain, sometimes you need to surrender yourself to it. The journey is rough and you will face ups and downs but the ending will be worthy. This defensive mechanism has been going around for ages. Mammoths have thick fur to survive in the cold, chameleons change their skin's color to the surrounding. Adapt yourself is always great when you are stuck in a foreign situation. You can't change the game but you can change how you play it. If you have being stung by bees a thousand times, what could a stung or two do to you? That's how adaption works. You trained yourself harshly or learn from experience to tread softly in the future. As your plate mail grows stronger and harder, you will only feel a tickle when an arrow hit you in the chest. Adaption isn't easy and it takes some time. Patience will get you there.

Some people pray when they are in deep trouble asking for mercy or some miracles to happen. Some take pills to ease their mind. Others might eat down their troubles to their stomach or smoke some pipe. There are thousands of ways to get pain out of your system. Unethical, unorthodox ways will make you a freak to society. Hence, control your addiction and keep reminding yourself that you are stronger than you look. Break some rules but not the law and have fun for once in your miserable day. Those people who seem joyful even though they are actually poor and sad, they are the real MVP. It’s all about the little stuff which everyone likes. How often do you get a free meal because a waitress messes up your order? How often do you get to skip classes, not knowing that there are actually no classes going on that day? Call it God’s work, fate, destiny or luck, I called it a sign. A triangle will bring up the Pyramid of Giza or the Illuminating, as for me, the first thing I will think of is the Pythagoras Theorem because that’s how deep I am into engineering.

 

I trust in the signs that keep on happening to me. Failure to being accepted into an organization or clubs isn’t that bad for me since I do not know those clubs will actually need me to work my ass off. Forgetting to bring my wallet which save me from food poisoning. The Internet being down which signals me to study for finals, so I can focus on my revision without much distraction. These are some signs which I believe in.

Everything that’s happening around you is all for a reason. Look it up and if you believe in it or the cause of it, pain will always be a pleasure to you.