Essay About Pain

Pain, suffering, poverty, disease, anguish, and many other forms of negativity are aspects of our lives that are as necessary as they are unfortunate. If we couldn’t feel pain, we wouldn’t know how to appreciate all of the ways we have been blessed. In an absence of suffering we could never know what bliss is. Without disease and anguish we would never search for answers and cures so that others would not share a similar fate. Pain in the world I feel is greatly unappreciated. Suffering and its’ kind is generally viewed as negative but without it one could never have a hero, there would be no charity for the needy, and no one could feel compassion for the ill.

Everyone I feel has their own vision of what a hero is. Some people look to comic

I believe that without witnessing people suffering we would not have the opportunity to exercise charity. In this world I feel that charity is one of the greatest gifts that pain can give. Anyone who has ever helped someone in need knows what the feeling is that I speak of. The look in someone’s eyes when you extend a helping hand, give them a meal, a warm coat or a few dollars makes it absolutely worthwhile. The simple act of kindness that brings someone else relief from their pain is one of the greatest gifts pain can

I believe that one of the strongest feelings of pain one can experience is when one see’s someone suffering from disease. It is in this moment that one of the most powerful, driving, and compelling reactions from pain is derived. Compassion is that driving force. Compassion drives us as humans to make choices, to make decisions that would make our own selves suffer to relieve the pain of others. To suffer so that others can feel relief is an awesome feeling. Though the self-sacrifice that is so often associated with compassion is one of the most wonderful feelings there is most people aren’t; willing to make the commitment needed to gain the