Pain

David from Prometheus

A quote from one of my favorite movies, which is Prometheus. But this entry is not to narrate the beautiful movie but rather to define the reality of pain. Some define pain as an unpleasant physical sensation caused by injury, but the definition is bigger and different from one person to another. Pain, suffering, agony, create hardship. Pain not just felt by one person in a hardship, but also to a person that look or hear a story of another person hardship.

Pain is not just a stimulus to avoid danger, as we involuntary move our hand from the near scorching fire, pain is actually a change. The movement of our hand is the change created. Not just change, but also the body learnt that fire can cause harm to the hand, thus this learning  event create maturity. Indeed , human can only change when there is pain. But one may have a different pain threshold to ignite the change. Some might need a little bit of pain to change, and some need a tremendous amount of it.

A fictional character in Naruto Anime; Pain

  

Those who walk along the road of pain and hardship, tend to have this evolution of maturity, we call it empathy. Those who feel pain whenever they have a glimpse of a person having a difficulty, tend to give a hand, because there is a " I`ve been there" mind set of an empathetic person. In this world, it is possible to  differentiate a person who has walk the painful road or not, by just looking at their level of selfishness and maturity.

Thus, stop looking at girls moving their hips in tik tok , but rather start looking and hearing the story of other people hardship. To feel the pain, and spread it because it might create change. Stop looking people that above you and daydreaming to be like them, but start looking to those who are below us, so we can give a helping hand, to raise them up. That is a definition of a rich successful person; an ability to pull a person out of his misery. 

Rich does not mean you have a great sport car, a superb motorbike, or even a big house mansion. But the real richness is to know the meaning of life, our true purpose of existence in this realm. Even in Islam narrates that the divine wealthiness is actually our good healthy body. Let us find our true purpose, not possessions nor titles. Numbers are infinite, there is no end of numbers.Hence it will not satisfy you permanently. You can fill all those emptiness in your house with beautiful furniture, but not voids in your heart, by just piling up these materials. 

Bob Marley (source: of course Google)

Hence, let start spreading happiness by lending a hand, spreading pain, and let start to change for a greater purpose in life. Walk down the painful road with a smile. But one might wonder on how to walk a thorny road with  a smile. Well " the trick is William Potter, is not minding that it hurts".