Pain is Good

What is Life?
How serious should we take our Life?
What do we want in our Life?

These are a few questions that I have pondered over a lot over the last few months. I have recalled situations and moments from my past, enacted and re-enacted them with just myself being the audience. I have honestly tried to look at all the various aspects and attempted to understand the core value of the situation. Finally I could not help myself from concluding that ALL of us are SELFISH and we are bloody good at it.

I would not be stating too much if I said that all we want from our life is HAPPINESS. We can all use different words for it, let it be satisfaction, security, responsibility etc but in the end the sole aim is happiness. A quest for happiness is not bad. However, we do tend to take whatever means possible to obtain it and in the process showcase our brutally selfish selves to the world around us.

Again, let me make it clear, I'm not referring to the pleasures we obtain at the expense of others. Because that is terrible. I am trying to bring to the fore the hedonistic bastards we all are. Yes, we all are such.

We all love pain.

Haven't each and every one of us parted with something very precious to ourselves because it made someone smile? Haven't we at times forgone our best interests to put up with some crap our friend asked to give him company in? Haven't we stood up for others to bear the brunt of a calamity all by ourselves? Haven't we all given up something close because we felt it was the right thing to do even if it would hurt forever? Haven't we allowed ourselves to be made fun of because it would cheer up our circle of friends? Hasn't a soldier fighting for his country run ahead to face the shower of bullets so that his comrades can accomplish a mission?
What connects them all?
PAIN and HAPPINESS.
The protagonist always feels the pain. He can avoid it but he won't because he is selfish. The pain is only preliminary but what that opens for him is a tiny window of happiness; (yes, I have sacrificed/helped/donated) which may be fleeting but it is quality happiness. It goes a long way to balance or even tilt the books in the favour of happiness over pain.

That feeling of sacrifice brings with it such immense happiness that one would agree to endure excruciating levels of pain in exchange. The feeling of being a HERO or a SAVIOUR or a SACRIFICIAL LAMB is so badly aspired by each one of us.

We deceive the entire world around us which talks of our greatness. Little do they realize what is the sole objective of the grinning devil.

Many of us will want to refute it but as far as I am concerned I will only say that. " I am in great pain and am loving every moment of it."