Pain

How can pain make us stronger?

Recently, I had to miss two days of school this weekend. You may think I am lucky, since my weekend turned into a 6 day weekend, but I am not. The reason that I was gone those days, was because I had to get my wisdom teeth removed. If you have not had the pleasure of this happening to you yet, then I suggest that you run for the hills (just kidding, don’t).

My dentist tells me that particularly my experience was much worse than what most people have to go through. He had to cut one of my teeth in half, and another one of my teeth was underneath a bone, so he had to cut right through the bone. While the experience was terrible, I can honestly say that if I needed to, I would do it again. While this may sound crazy, I think that experiences like this really do benefit us in the long run. Having pain like this makes us more capable of handling pain in the future. Pain is going to come whether we are ready or not, and if we have experienced pain before, we will be able to endure the future pain better. I think that this is why that everyone has wisdom teeth and has to get this operation done. It is not simply a flaw in our bodies that we have these teeth. Consider the example of a medieval battle. Let’s say that one side of the battle did not temper their swords when they made them, and the other side did. They thought that tempering the sword would just make it weaker because you had to break it down so much. So what would happen when that one side tried to use their swords? Their swords would shatter upon impact leaving their owners at the mercy of the enemy. Our lives could be like this if we do not feel some pain in the relative safety of our homes. We will shatter ourselves against the first challenge that we meet in our lives. It is what we do after we face these challenges that really define who we are. If we sink into a deep depression, or we decide to be cheerful and just take life day by day. It is these choices that show what we are made of. That is why it is so important that we feel pain and face challenges before we leave home. So don’t be afraid and go get your wisdom teeth pulled out, because it will only make you stronger; just like the song, “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”.

Pain is an important aspect in all of our lives that we really need, but don’t really want. It is kind of like High School, we really need it, but we don’t really want it. I know that if we just accept pain as part of life and do our best to overcome it, we can be better people because of it.