Celebrating Pain: When The Feeling Seems Unbearable

Pain is a difficult word for people to comprehend and to understand. But when you have overcome it, you will have all the reasons to celebrate life because of pain.

Why of all words we are so afraid with pain? Pain is the word associated for life’s sad and lonely experiences. It is also used to define misery and agony from lost and defeat. Medical terms for extreme soreness and throbbing are associated with pain as well. With all these association and connection with “pain” would you still celebrate life for having “pain” in your life?

Pain is our reminder that life has more meaning
Pain is the beginning for celebration. All journeys in life are accompanied with “Pain”. From your first step to your last waking day, your life will never be without pain. When you stumbled during your first step as a child, pain was there to remind you that you need to be careful the next time you try. When your first romantic relationship causes heartache, you were reminded by pain not to give everything and spare yourself also with love. When your parents failed you, you were reminded by pain that everything is not met by the people we love. Pain is our constant reminder to keep our lives going. If not for “Pain” we would have been doomed to believe we are living in a fantasy world.

Pain is the beginning of Life
Our mother experience excruciating pain when she gave birth to us. Our life started with a physical as well as emotional pain experienced by our mother. Even as a fetus in the womb of our parents the emotional and physical pain of our mother is also experienced by us. Thus pain is the beginning of life. There’s a story of a woman who had a recent accident which almost took her life. She recalls how she felt having new life from the pain of the accident. It was not the physical pain she recalls but the emotional torture of lying on the bed and hearing the people she love and never be able to communicate with. She was in the state of comma for almost a year. And the feeling of being awake yet unable to express her feelings is very painful. She was able to experience what death feels like. When she was out of comma, her first reverence is life. She was able to appreciate more about the simple things in life like breathing, talking, listening, seeing and touching. Without the pain she would have continue living life without meaning. Now she lives each day with gratefulness and a reason to celebrate life because of pain.

Everything we do, whether we expect good things or just plainly doing the routine we are constantly faced with life’s pain. Instead of condemning life because it gave you pain, try to be grateful for having it in your life. Thank each day whether your heart is full of pain at the moment, because like a seesaw, your life will have its moment up there also. And when it happens, you’ll know that indeed there’s a cause for celebration of pain!