Everyone associates the words pain, ache and twinge to something bad, something we wish we’d never feel, but inevitably do. Whenever we’re either in pain, or feel aching bones or have a twinge in the knee, we hope that it goes away as fast as possible, because it’s preventing us from doing many things that we would like to be doing at the time, like being able to move around without any complications. However, despite what these feelings suggest, feel pain, in whichever way it may come, is actually a good thing. Not meaning that you should be happy to feel pain, but that you should be thankful that you do.
Pain might be disturbing, but it’s telling you that something is wrong, and you should look out. If we didn’t feel pain we’d get hurt all the time, and wouldn’t even tell. We wouldn’t rest to allow the injuries to heal, so they’d just keep getting worse with time, until they’ve become serious problems that probably are too late to be dealt with. Likewise, if the fire alarm doesn’t sound, people won’t know about the fire until it’s too late, and there’s nothing they can do to escape.
Last week, while playing soccer, I got kicked in the foot, and, because of the heat of the moment, didn’t feel anything, so I kept on playing. Hours later, at home, I was laying down on the couch, and when I stood up, I felt agonizing pain in my right ankle; I couldn’t walk. I had to jump around on one foot to be able to move. If I’d felt pain the moment I got kicked, stopped playing, and hadn’t forced the injury as much, then it probably wouldn’t have hurt so badly afterwards. Later I went to the doctor and was told I had a 2nd degree ankle sprain, and that meant that I had to be inactive for about a week. I think, should I have been lucky to feel the pain from the kick I received, I would’ve had a much milder injury, since I would’ve stopped the threat much earlier.
Pain sounds terrible, but it’s constantly helping us treat damages that we might not even know we have. Pain works like an alarm, without it, the danger would still be there, but we wouldn’t know about it until it’s too late, so it’s best if we have the alarm at hand, to be able to prevent dangerous or complicated situations. No matter how much pain can make you suffer, it’s worth it considering what could happen if pain wasn’t there to warn you to start with.
Pain might be disturbing, but it’s telling you that something is wrong, and you should look out. If we didn’t feel pain we’d get hurt all the time, and wouldn’t even tell. We wouldn’t rest to allow the injuries to heal, so they’d just keep getting worse with time, until they’ve become serious problems that probably are too late to be dealt with. Likewise, if the fire alarm doesn’t sound, people won’t know about the fire until it’s too late, and there’s nothing they can do to escape.
Last week, while playing soccer, I got kicked in the foot, and, because of the heat of the moment, didn’t feel anything, so I kept on playing. Hours later, at home, I was laying down on the couch, and when I stood up, I felt agonizing pain in my right ankle; I couldn’t walk. I had to jump around on one foot to be able to move. If I’d felt pain the moment I got kicked, stopped playing, and hadn’t forced the injury as much, then it probably wouldn’t have hurt so badly afterwards. Later I went to the doctor and was told I had a 2nd degree ankle sprain, and that meant that I had to be inactive for about a week. I think, should I have been lucky to feel the pain from the kick I received, I would’ve had a much milder injury, since I would’ve stopped the threat much earlier.
Pain sounds terrible, but it’s constantly helping us treat damages that we might not even know we have. Pain works like an alarm, without it, the danger would still be there, but we wouldn’t know about it until it’s too late, so it’s best if we have the alarm at hand, to be able to prevent dangerous or complicated situations. No matter how much pain can make you suffer, it’s worth it considering what could happen if pain wasn’t there to warn you to start with.