Pains

06/01/2023 Nilson Lattari

There is a lot of pain in life. Birth pains, love pains, envy pains, physical or spiritual pains. We suffer from a kind of pain in our lives all the time. There are medications for some of them that make us feel comfortable. Medications may help us or they are capable of turning our pains in a different way to see life. But we must consider pains as learning, knowledge, and maturity. Life is made by suffering and sorrow for some people but they are only obstacles for others.
It will be impossible to feel the pains of others, even if we feel compassion for them. It’s impossible living histories that others lived. It’s impossible feeling what others feel because each has a way to feel and tolerate his pains; each has his own limit.
Then, everybody can feel pain one way or another.
Each of us chooses the way to tackle pains and use knowledge and tolerance to do this. Pains are mute and they live inside us and around us, but there is a way to understand the pains of the world through others’ perspectives. This moment can be an epiphany if we observe around us with a neutral look. When we ask others when they say nonsense things or we listen to them speaking about prison and they don’t understand that they are living inside it. We can try to understand the pains and suffering of others, however, they don’t express them.
The most important pain is the pain of the revelation of the truth because we ignore it, and then we can’t feel and note it. It happens when we wonder about things that we learned before and we question them, at the time we confront reality with our thoughts, our learnings, and the way we observe the world running to try to understand life. When we abandon our comfort zone to know the reason for our existence.
How can we stand here, in this world, knowing facts that we learned to believe, and before the light of knowledge, studies, and readings, we reflect about them, and we need to abandon our beliefs to find freedom? And all we have to do is: what can we do with it? It’s like leaving the protected place where we are living and after that, we are exposed and facing the light. The Cave Myth obliges us to walk, and keep going to and growing.
This pain cannot be nominated, there is no definition and we are orphans of ourselves. We see our friends and our parents living their lives, and then we are able to see them like outsiders. They refuse our ideas and consider us sick people as if we had a critical disease, a virus, and we are contaminated.
We came to this world through birth pain and we don’t ask for it. This means that we need to go ahead. We have to reach the next step because there is a feeling inside us that whispers to us that we are beings who need to walk.
Some people need to know the world to understand it and not see it from their allegations. In resume, we cannot stay here, in this world, feeling fear all the time. It is an intellectual fraud. It is living only to tell lies for ourselves and others. How many times are we listening to conversations and comments among people floating in another reality, in a different context and we feel pain? A kind of pain that doesn’t provoke screams, doesn’t hurt us but it’s efficient as a knife.
Abandoning usual places, embracing the world of knowledge, and facing our truths. They are actions that set us free. On the other hand, we are prisoners in fact when we are reflecting about these subjects, we are looking for people wandering around us, enjoying the same pain.