It must have been months ago, by now, that I saw commercial that immediately woke me from my mindless trance of television-watching. It was a commercial for some sort of over-the-counter painkiller, the specifics are now vague but I remember clearly, at the end of the commercial, a very generic-sounding man's voice saying "Taking you a step closer to a pain-free world."
Now that had to be the most horrifying thing I'd ever heard in my life, I thought to myself. A world without pain?
At first it might sound good to you; no suffering, jealousy, anger, hate or fear. But as you take a closer look, you see that world would be lacking the things that only exist with pain, beautiful things, like hope and love.
It made me wonder if the world might be like that someday, and if so, how soon? Certainly not in this lifetime, but maybe in the next?
We learn from pain. Given the choice, I'd choose to take a step back instead.
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3 comments:
you really wouldnt know what happiness was is you never experienced pain..
love cant exist without pain?
of course not.
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