Complains. Sometimes it seems like life is all about complains.
We focus more on the negative things than on the positive ones.
Pain. Pain is one of the principal sources of complains.
Either emotional or physical, pain is popularly considered a burden. It exists
to make us suffer, to make our lives more difficult.
Perspective.
What if it was possible to live a painless life? How many of us would gladly stand in line for
that? I would say quite a few. However, those people are not stopping to
consider the possible consequences of not feeling pain.
Although pain is not pleasant at all, it exist for a reason.
How could we know that we are healthy if we are not getting any feedback from
our body? If I wouldn’t have felt that I stepped on a needle and cut myself, I
may have ended up with a dangerous infection; if I weren’t feeling this pain in
my side, I wouldn’t know that my appendix is about to break and I may die.
Unfortunately, a genetic condition that inactivates pain
axons preventing people from feeling pain does exist. It is called Congenital
Insensitivity of Pain with Anhidrosis (CIPA). Since this is a generic
conditions people are obviously born with it. How can you explain a child the concept
of danger when they do not know what pain is? It would be a little complicated to
explain them that they should not chew on their fingers when they do not see
anything wrong with it. Usually people with this condition do not live until adulthood
because they die young due to some reckless activity or some illness which
symptoms were not detected.
Here are two examples of what it is like to have
CIPA. In the following video, although little Ashlyn suffered during her childhood
adapting to her condition, nowadays she is way better and trying to make a difference
for the future kids with her condition.This other video shows the possible life-lasting consequences of the condition.
Hey Melissa, your blog was very interesting and informative. But I would I agree with you there are many of us that would hope not to feel any pain at all, but like you said we are not considering the possible consequences of not feeling pain. Everything we experience in life is for a reason and pain is one of them, but it’s not something we can’t overcome it just takes time.
ReplyDeleteHey, Melissa. I also to thought at first that it would be awesome not to feel horrible things, but without that we would still be hurting ourselves physically. That first video you put up was so interesting. I didn’t something like that was even possible, not to feel! It’s crazy! Loved your blog.
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