Today I want to talk about some thoughts I have been having recently. I usually like to post about my travel stories and my paintings and sketches but today I feel like I need to pen this down. During my travels I saw a lot of beauty. Mother nature is just wonderful and as always she left me in awe.

But I also got to witness the not so beautiful side of life and that is the problems of the common people. As you might already know, I am from India and I think you are all aware that India is riddled with problems like hunger, poverty, illiteracy and much more. Due to all these, life can sometimes be really hard here.

All these led me to think about the different pains we all go to in our lives in general. Of course, our problems are nothing in comparison to the people who live life in a constant state of insecurity, but yes, we all go through difficult times in life and it really hurts, but I also like to view both sides of a coin and try to find the positives in feeling pain also.

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Pain Makes Us Stronger

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Going through any experiences in life prepares us for the future. Getting familiar with a particular scenario or situation really makes you stronger in that, you won’t be affected by it much in the future if you were to ever go through the same again.

This works especially in the painful experiences of life. Once you’ve gone through a bad breakup, or the loss of loved one, you get mentally stronger. Of course, it always hurts when bad things happen to you but you are better prepared to handle your emotions. Being mentally strong is really important in life because as we all know, there are good and bad times in life, which is guaranteed.

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Pain Makes You Empathetic

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When you have seen a lot of bad things in life and dealt with pain, you become really empathetic because you know what it’s like and how difficult it can get. So, when you see someone going through something similar, you want to lend a helping hand and share your own experiences with them.

In today’s world, where not many people care for you, being empathetic is a really important quality to have as a person. As human beings, if we don’t care for other human beings, then isn’t that the most shameful thing for us a species? Even animals can be seen helping each other out in the animal kingdom. So, yes, pain has a positive effect in this regard too.

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Pain Makes Us Better Decision Makers

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As a child when you touched a flame for the first time, it really hurt. But then you learnt to never touch a flame again. Similarly, we go through tons of learning experiences that are not always gentle to us and many times they end up in tears and pain. It may be emotional, mental or physical one.

So, once we go through something like that, we are able to make better decisions in the future, because we become aware of what to do and what not to do. This is how our human race has learnt from the beginning of itself. Everything has always been trial and error. The error (pain) simply teaches you to try another way until you succeed.

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