It is pain that makes someone temporarily weak. Obviously if I was paralysed with pain in a battle situation I would be rendered helpless and unable to fight. This is most certainly the case when my new daggers turned on me during a critical time and I failed miserably to protect myself.
But then again, I repeat myself; It is pain that makes someone temporarily weak. In the end, pain is something that is essential in the development of someone truly strong. As a mild example, I could use exercising as an example. Athletes and those who wish to truly become stronger than everyone else to emerge victorious will go to great lengths to improve upon themselves in every way possible. One of the basic methods is to push yourself to the very physical limitations of your body in order for some change. Once you experience the pain, say, the over stretching of your muscles during a warm-up, the first time, the second time it doesn’t feel as painful the second time. The more you push yourself; the more you improve because the next time the pain will be less.
Humans get used to something sooner or later. We all do; it is our basic nature. If I did a hundred push-ups in one try everyday starting from today, in a week I would be considerably better than before.
All I have mentioned in terms of improvement have been purely physical. In truth, if you are wounded not physically and experience intense pain, it undoubtedly makes you stronger. This is because the next time something similar happens, it will hurt less and you will recover quickly and without remorse. This in turn may turn you into something emotionless; a monster, even.
Some consider being emotionless a strength; it may be, for all I know. I believe it not only to be a strength; it is a strength as much as a weakness. It is a personality that makes up an actual person and without emotions a person will not have personality, and therefore resulting in an emotion-less mind-bent human.
Being wounded is something that takes away a child’s innocence. Countless children have only come face to face with cruelty as they become victims of rape and torture. Pain is an essential quality in the education learnt about the world. Not the type of education paid for in schools where you learn sciences and geography.
What a child must first learn is the utmost ugliness of this permanently fucked-up world of ours.
It is when children are wounded that their innocence, that their perfectly-painted picture of this colourful world and the way it should be is shattered in that single moment of realization that the world was never ever supposed to be fair.
The innocence of a child is closely connected to something called spirit. It is the realm within the human body that is beyond physical; it is where unseen unhealed scars of the past remain. Scars and wounds caused by something a loved person did to them, or the raping of their innocent picture-perfect perception of the world around them.
The spirit is like a piece of paper; it can be crumpled, torn, drawn and splattered with anything that the artist so desires. In the end; the piece of paper is always never as it was before. The paper will never again be perfect, and it is entirely the fault of the artist. I believe that the more pain the person suffers, the stronger they become but too- the more different the person is from before their changing.
The closer the paper is close to entirely destroyed, the closer the paper is to being ripped entirely to shreds the stronger the person has become; the more they have been accustomed to a constant pain whether it be physical or spiritual.
I know that my paper is shredded.
-Sylvius.
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