I was waiting outside the stadium for two hours, my legs were in pain. After sitting for the four-hour long drive, my body could hardly withstand itself. The number of people I was surrounded by wasn't comparable to the earlier view of Tucson, Arizona's empty road. I remember being very anxious throughout the entire wait for my upcoming Killers concert. My parents weren't knowledgeable of my current actual state, in fact, they thought I was sleeping at my cousin's house. My cousin kept trying to comfort me, by telling me it was almost time for them to open doors. Which, of course, was being said to me while she was on my uncle's shoulders as if she knew the pain I was feeling. The sun started to set and, at last, the summer’s heat was finally
On Monday March 25, some members of the baseball team, my girlfriend, and I traveled to Murray State University to watch a concert performed by Nelly and the St. Lunatics. It was a terrible night to go anywhere because it was raining and storming the whole way, but there was nothing that was going to stop us from going to the concert. We where all so hyped up about it and couldn’t wait to head out. My brother, who attends Murray State, had gotten us excellent seats about seventy-five feet away from the stage.
Pain is a universal element of the human experience. Everyone, at some point in their lives, experiences pain in one form or another. Pain has numerous causes, effects, and is itself a highly complex biological phenomenon. It also carries with it important emotional and social concerns. Pain cannot be entirely understood within the context of any one field of scientific inquiry. Indeed, it must be examined across a range of disciplines, and furthermore considered in relation to important non-scientific influences, such as emotional responses and social determinants. I conducted my explorations regarding pain with the following question in mind: to what degree is pain subjective? I found several avenues of inquiry to be useful in my explorations: they are (1) the expanding specialty in the medical profession of pain management; (2) pain in individuals with spinal cord injuries (SCIs) and (3) pain experiences of children. Examining these issues led to the conclusion that pain is in fact a highly subjective phenomenon.
“Pain” by Diane Ackerman is a story about people who learned to conquer pain. The narrator was telling us when mind and body are connected, unbelievable things can happen. Ackerman described human body as “Miraculous and Beautiful” (298). The author represented many methods of controlling pain, and how difficult it is to define it “which may be sharp, dull, shooting, throbbing, imaginary” (301). At the end of the story she described that people are happy because the absence of pain “what we call happiness may be just the absence of pain” (301).
Handling adversity is something that all people must do throughout their lives, but it is the ways in which individuals approach adversity that sets us apart. There are two contrasting ways in which you can respond to adversity: 1) you can either curl up into a ball and accept the outcome as it is 2) you can take control of the situation and work hard to make the resulting outcome in your favor. I faced adversity within sports when I was diagnosed with a physical disorder as a child.
My heart was beating loud and fast in my chest. It was getting harder and harder to keep myself above the icy water and my body was slowly shutting down. I tried to fight back by thrashing my arms and legs around but I quickly got tired and my limbs were going numb. Screaming was no use as it barley sounded like there was any noise escaping my mouth.
Through experiencing or living with pain, insight, knowledge and understanding can be presented to those things that may not have been in realization in a pain free life. Because of pain, the true meaning of life, what it is like to live, and the value of oneself and others is to be within one’s control. Pain strengthens the body, mind, and the spirit. As stated in Virginia Woolf’s essay on Being Ill, the true beauty of the people and the real beauty of the earth can be seen through the eyes of those who are in pain. Also according to Woolf, pain can lead to spiritual divinity. From my understanding, the power of prayer to some people is not in belief until pain has overtaken the body of oneself or of a loved one. Pain seems to open the eyes of those who have not lived correctly.
Subject matter in trauma is difficult due to the intensity of emotions that surface. Observing acts of abuse were difficult. Particularly the scenes were children were being abused. Moreover, self-injury videos were difficult to watch. Observing a mother who abused her child and then watching the child cope through self-injury was emotional.
Growing up, my parents owned and operated a successful small business. As crafting trends changed and scrapbooking went online, they were forced to file bankruptcy – both personal and business – in 2013. I was just starting high school and realized the repercussions this would cause on my plan. I have always planned on pursuing higher education and realized that any hope of financial support from my parents was dismal. I poured myself into school, finding a new motivation in the realization that great grades would lead to scholarships. I found a new job as a night manager at a local grocery store. That job benefited my family in multiple ways as it provided me with a steady income – meager, but consistent- and helped with food insecurities
What does pain mean to you? Pain is a tense feeling that tells you something may be wrong. There’s physical pain- acute and or chronic, emotional pain, and also a phrase known as “pain in the ass”- which is where something or someone is being annoying and or troublesome.
When we’re born we gave pain to our mother’s womb; when we wake up in the middle of the night hungry we cause our parent’s pain. When we try to walk we cause ourselves pain; when we don’ learn how to listen before we speak we cause ourselves pain, when we don’t learn how to question everything we were taught we cause ourselves pain. When we drink soda, and eat fast food we cause ourselves pain. When we don’t learn from other’s mistakes and do better we cause ourselves pain; when we let anger and jealousy control us we cause our mind’s pain. When we hold grudges we cause ourselves pain; when you’ve lived 40 years of your life and you still react to problems the same way a child does you cause yourself pain.
As the dark stadium filled with fire, with the sounds of guns and bombs exploding everywhere, the crazed fans yelled at the top of their lungs. The enormous stage was rumbling with the sound of a single guitar as the band slowly started their next encore performance. Soon after I realized that I was actually at the Sanitarium concert listening to Metallica play "One", I thought to my self, "Is this real, am I actually here right now?" I had a weird feeling the entire time because I had worked all summer to simply listen to music with a bunch of strangers.
Without warning, the lights went dark. This was the moment I had been waiting for. My adrenaline went through the roof. The time had finally come that I would get to see and hear my first live concert.
After the show had ended, I felt slightly empty. I had waited years and months for that night, and it was over in the blink of an eye. Although I was sad that the show was over, I felt completely content. Now, when I hear their songs, I get to remember what it felt like to hear the band perform them live. I can watch the videos and try to wrap my mind around how it was real. Going to my first concert was an unparalleled experience that I will always cherish. The ambiance, the band’s performance and the unity the audience
I am stuck in a world of thoughts, distracted with emotions, as my pen bleeds words of sorrow. Pain and
"There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man of woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer-committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear." George Eliot (1819-80), English novelist,editor. Felis Holt, the Radical, Introduction (1866).What is pain? In the American Heritage Dictionary, pain is referred to as "an unpleasant sensation occurring in varying degrees of severity as a consequence of injury, disease, or emotional disorder." The word is rooted in Middle English, from an Old French piene, from Latin poena, meaning "penalty or pain", and from Greek pointe, meaning "penalty." Pain is a very realistic problem that many individuals face daily.