Learning to Lament Part Two: Our Changing Relationship with Pain.
Sorry for the long delay in the follow up to the previous post: I've had this more or less mapped out and written for nearly two months, but had a hard time competing it in a way that I feel comfortable sharing. I realized pretty quickly that this topic needs a lot more attention than a few simple blog posts can explore. Also, I have become keenly aware that my life up to this point has been fairly pain free--I don't suffer from any conditions that require regular medication, my life has not been affected by major tragedy, so it feels a bit superficial for me to take on such a task based mostly on theoretical knowledge, but here we are. The following is a combination of what was supposed to be two independent posts. While I feel like I left out a lot of what I wanted to say about this subject, I feel like I need to put the topic to rest for now, though I hope to be able to return to it some day. Pain is ubiquitous. We generally avoid it as much as possible, but it i