Pain

Pain is the awareness of negative stimulus or bodily harm. It is the most important part of being human. To feel pain proves we are alive. So should we embrace pain? Should we become indifferent to pain? When we see others in pain should we just say that is human? I think not. Sure suffering is an integral part of the human experience, but it doesn’t have to be. Look into the eyes of an alcoholic; you see a pain, veiled in an addiction. Look into the eyes of a child in grief after the loss of a parent, you see a poor individual struggling against an unjust universe. See the man sitting outside his former job after being laid off too afraid to go home and tell his family they’ll be on the streets within a couple weeks.
We all may battle an addiction, lose a loved one, and we may even lose everything and end up out on the streets. Life involves a whole lot of pain and suffering. There are some places children are killed in the middle of the night by people claiming they are revolutionaries. Other places men in camouflage shoot children down in the street for the progress of capitalism. I would like it if this was a world where nobody had to suffer.
Torture, famine, hatred, and war, these are mankind’s pain. Man experiences a unique type pain. These special types of human pain are particularly malignant, because we cause them. The pain of war isn’t caused by a bite from an insect or an accident of weather. War is the systematic killing of other people for the advancement of a radical ideal or system of belief. War is a radical form of pain because it can remain in men’s hearts even after the actual conflict is over. When Germany and France fought in 1870 the conflict left the French bitter over the loss of their provinces of Alsace and Loraine. When the First World War broke out Nearly 45 years later, there were still cries of vengeance and re-conquest. The particular extremity of the reparations and occupation of the German frontier lead to a sense of embitterment and hatred that was experienced by the Germans in the twenties and thirties. War broke out as a result. War leads to nothing but war and perpetual war.
We kill, we die, we rape and we torture. Man keeps this cycle up and we’ll never see the beauty of peace. Peace is the opposite of war, and it is a chance at the avoidance of pain. If we could truly seek peace than we may be able to protect the world from pain. If war is the perpetuity of pain, than peace may be the true perpetuity of pleasure, or happiness.
No more death. No more Pain. No more war to perpetuity. Free the people. Stop the killing. Verisimilitude!