PinsandNeedles

The problem of pain There is a human tendency to avoid pain. As a child, we learn early on that pain is bad. Of course it is, right? It hurts!! It can’t therefore be good!! For example, if we touch something hot and it burns us, we get hurt. We then tend to avoid touching that hot object in future. (Usually!!) I used to love to surf. I had a bunch of friends I would surf with, and I loved being out on the ocean away from the world, watching the waves crash. I was terrible at it, but I loved it. Then one summer I was with my family and I came off my board and my head went straight into a shallow sand bank. I had excruciating pain in my back and could barely get myself out of the surf and back down the beach to my family. The pain was so bad I couldn’t stay on the beach and had to go back to where we were staying to rest. I then passed out from the pain when I went to the bathroom and ended up having to go to hospital. In the end it was simply severe muscle spasm and...